As the average human life expectancy has increased, so too has the impact of ageing and age-related disease on our society. Ageing research is now the focus of thousands of laboratories that include leaders in the areas of genetics, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and behaviour. Ageing Research Reviews (ARR) covers the trends in this field. It is designed to fill a large void, namely, a source for critical reviews and viewpoints on emerging findings on mechanisms of ageing and age-related disease. Rapid advances in understanding of mechanisms that control cellular proliferation, differentiation and survival are leading to new insight into the regulation of ageing. From telomerase to stem cells to energy and oxyradical metabolism, this is an exciting new era in the multidisciplinary field of ageing research. The cellular and molecular underpinnings of manipulations that extend lifespan, such as caloric restriction, are being identified and novel approaches for preventing age-related diseases are being developed. ARR publishes articles on focussed topics selected from the broad field of ageing research, with an emphasis on cellular and molecular mechanisms of the aging process and age-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders. Applications of basic ageing research to lifespan extension and disease prevention are also covered in this journal.

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Editor-in-Chief
Claudio Franceschi
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email Claudio Franceschi
Associate Editors
Robert Brosh, Jr.
National Institute of Aging (NIA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Laura Fratiglioni
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Managing Editor
Aurelia Santoro
Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email Aurelia Santoro
Editorial Board Members
Vladimir Anisimov
N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Thiruma Arumugam
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gil Atzmon
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA
V.A. Bohr
National Institute on Aging , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Angela Brooks-Wilson
University of British Columbia, Canada
Judith Campisi
Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, USA
Daniela Caporossi
University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy
Miriam Capri
Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Rafa de Cabo
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Hao Deng
Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan Changsha, China
Evandro Fei Fang
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Luigi Ferrucci, PhD, MD
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Luigi Fontana
Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Tamas Fülöp
Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Sherbrooke, Québec, Quebec, Canada
Katsutoshi Furukawa
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
David Gems
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Efstathios Gonos
National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Vera Gorbunova
University of Rochester, New York, USA
Claudia Gravekamp
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Xiaoming Hu
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
Thomas Johnson
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Kai Kaarniranta
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Matt Kaeberlein
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Dimitrios Kapogiannis
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dimitris Kletsas
National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
Anis Larbi
Singapore Immunology Network, SINGAPORE, Singapore
Giovanna Lattanzi
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Julie Mattison
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Mark P. Mattson
National Institute of Aging (NIA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Daniela Monti
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Alexey Moskalev
Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation
Ralph Nixon
New York University (NYU) Medical Center, Orangeburg, New York, USA
Fabiola Olivieri
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Jose Ordovas
Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Heinz Osiewacz
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Tiago Fleming Outeiro
University of Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany
Giuseppe Passarino
IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Italy
Graham Pawelec
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Stefano Salvioli
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Giovanni Scapagnini
Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Paola Sebastiani
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ewa Sikora
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Andreas Simm
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
Keshav K. Singh
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Alexis M. Stranahan
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA
Brendon Stubbs
King's College London, London, UK
Nicola Veronese, MD
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Jan Vijg
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, USA
Yang Yang
Northwest University, Xi’an, China
Yi Zeng
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Alex Zhavoronkov
John Hopkins University, Baltimore