AgingPortfolio.Org system is a flexible system to enable funding organizations to collaborate, track, analyze, structure, make decisions and set directions for future research efforts in aging.

Video tutorial for a high-throughput method for quantitative measurement of chronological life span. This method involves aging the cells in a defined medium under agitation and at constant temperature. At each age-point, a sub-population of cells is removed from the aging culture and inoculated into rich growth medium. A high-resolution growth curve is then obtained for this sub-population of aged cells using a Bioscreen C MBR machine. An algorithm is then applied to determine the relative proportion of viable cells in each sub-population based on the growth kinetics at each age-point.

For 28 years, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has supported the science of healthier aging. AFAR has played a major role in providing and advancing knowledge of aging and mechanisms of age-related disease by providing grants to more than 2,600 talented scientists. Because of limited dollars in support of aging research, America loses many great minds from the study of aging to disease-focused research and many are leaving research altogether. AFAR provides one of our country's most successful responses to this brain drain.

This program analyzes growth curves, computing doubling times and relative survivals on a sequence of outgrowth curves. The data is exported in a format for easy plotting in Excel (or other spreadsheet programs). The program can also output average values and standard deviations for a group of curves.