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ReviewAging2025

Age-related diseases as a testbed for anti-aging therapeutics: the case of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Alex Zhavoronkov, Dominika Wilczok, Feng Ren, Fedor Galkin

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Review in Aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alex ZhavoronkovInsilico Medicine AI Limited, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Dominika WilczokDuke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Feng RenInsilico Medicine AI Limited, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Fedor GalkinInsilico Medicine AI Limited, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While aging-related diseases are often used as proxies for the general aging process in research, they largely differ in terms of how integral their development is to organismal aging. Hallmarks of aging offer a convenient conceptual framework to assess the relevance of a disease to the anti-aging narrative. In this review, we propose hallmark decomposition as a method of measuring the potential of a therapy to translate from a disease-specific treatment to a general geroprotector. To help other researchers adopt and improve this methodology, we are releasing a disease scoring system and report the hallmark alignment of 13 aging-related diseases, among which IPF is the disease most aligned with aging.

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AgingIdiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisHumansagingdrug developmentidiopathic pulmonary fibrosisipfscoring

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PMID40820275
PMCPMC12422794

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