Wednesday, March 10, 2010
During his Dies Natalis Lecture of the Leiden University, Rudi Westendorp, director of the Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), pressed for the embedding of life sciences and medical sciences within an evolutionary framework. This would prevent fragmentation in the search for solutions for problems, such as those accompanying ageing, and replace the dominant view of organs as individual machines losing their function as a result of specific biological processes.
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