Senescence and Aging
The process of biological aging, or senescence, affects all living organisms. The human race's fascination with longevity and the physical and mental changes of growing older have led to broad advances in our understanding of cellular and organismal aging.
Total Funding
$500
Submission Deadline
Nov 04, 2016
About This Grant
As life expectancies get longer, we are also experiencing longer aging processes, and aging is a major factor in disease, ailments, and death. We want to feature Experiment projects working on current senescence research. Investigations into animal and plant cell death, cancer and tumorigenesis, cognition, neurobiology, genetics, everyday life among the elderly, or any other topics that are related to the aging process are welcome.
You can begin a page using the button below, and submit it for review by 11/4 to be included in the challenge.
Please watch our call for proposals before you start! This short 3-minute introduction video goes over the process of how crowdfunding on Experiment works:
Examples of past aging-related projects:
The cost of being super-fly: The effects of Vespa Amino Acid Mixture on cellular repair mechanisms
Which Human Physical Aging Biomarkers Validate Genetic and Biochemical Aging Reversal Success?
Do dietary supplements extend lifespan and prevent brain disease?
How It Works
Challenge grants are prizes to supplement existing crowdfunding campaigns. We will accept proposals for campaigns related to senescence, and all the campaigns will launch together on November 22nd, 2016. After the third week of the campaigns, the project with the highest number of backers will receive an additional $500. There are two runners-up prizes of $200 each.
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