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==Further reading==
* Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS. [http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780120883875 Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity.] In: Masoro E.J. & Austad S.N.. (eds.): Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Sixth Edition. Academic Press. San Diego, CA, USA, 2006, 3-42. ISBN 0-12-088387-2
* Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS. [http://longevity-science.org/Failure-Models-2006.pdf Models of Systems Failure in Aging. ] In: P Michael Conn (Editor): Handbook of Models for Human Aging, Burlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, 2006. 45-68. ISBN 0-12-369391-8.
* Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/6/29382/01330807.pdf Why We Fall Apart]. [http://longevity-science.org/IEEE-Spectrum-2004.pdf Engineering's Reliability Theory Explains Human Aging]. IEEE Spectrum, 2004, 41(9): 30-35.
* Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1196/annals.1297.094 The Reliability-Engineering Approach to the Problem of Biological Aging]. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004, 1019: 509-512. PMID 15247076
* Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S. [http://longevity-science.org/SAGE-KE-03.pdf The quest for a general theory of aging and longevity]. Science's SAGE KE (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment) for 16 July 2003; Vol. 2003, No. 28, 1-10. http://sageke.sciencemag.org, PMID 12867663
* Gavrilov L.A., Gavrilova N.S. [http://longevity-science.org/JTB-01.pdf The reliability theory of aging and longevity]. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2001, 213(4): 527-545. {{DOI|10.1006/jtbi.2001.2430}} PMID 11742523
* Abernethy, John. Gompertzian mortality originates in the winding-down of the mitotic clock. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1998, 192, 419-435.
* Gavrilov, L.A. A mathematical model of the aging of animals. Proc. Acad. Sci. USSR [Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR], 1978, 238(2): 490-492. English translation by Plenum Publ Corp: pp.53-55. PMID 624242
* Abernethy JD. The exponential increase in mortality rate with age attributed to wearing-out of biological components. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1979, 80, 333-354.
* Gavrilov, L.A., Gavrilova, N.S., Yaguzhinsky, L.S. The main regularities of animal aging and death viewed in terms of reliability theory. J. General Biology [Zhurnal Obschey Biologii], 1978, 39(5): 734-742. PMID 716614
* Witten, T.M., Investigating the aging mammalian system: Cellular levels and beyond, Proc. 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research, (1981) 309-315.
* Witten, T.M., A return to time, cells, systems, and aging: I. Rethinking the concepts of senescence in mammalian systems, Mech. Aging and Dev., 21(1983)69-81.
* Witten, T.M., A return to time, cells, systems, and aging: II. Relational and reliability theoretic aspects of senescence in mammalian systems, Mech. Aging and Dev., 27 (1984) 323-340.
* Witten, T.M., Reliability theoretic methods and aging: Critical elements, hierarchies, and longevity---Interpreting survival curves, (in) The Molecular Biology of Aging (eds.) A. Woodhead, A. Blackett, and R. Setlow (Plenum Press, N.Y. 1985).
* Witten, T.M., A return to time, cells, systems and aging: III. Critical elements, hierarchies, and Gompertzian dynamics, Mech. Ageing and Dev., 32 (1985) 141-177.
* Witten, T.M., A return to time, cells, system, and aging: IV. Further thoughts on Gompertzian survival dynamics---The neonatal years, Mech. Aging and Dev., 33 (1985) 177-190.
* Witten, T.M., Information content of biological survival curves arising in aging experiments: Some further thoughts, (in) Evolution of Aging Processes in Animals (ed.) A. Woodhead and K.H. Thompson (Plenum Press, N.Y., 1987).
* Witten, T.M., A return to time, cells, systems, and aging: V. Further thoughts on Gompertzian survival dynamics --- the geriatric years, Mech. Aging and Dev., 46(1988) 175-200.
==External links==
* [http://longevity-science.org/Reliability-Theory-2006.ppt Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity] - Power-Point Presentation of invited lecture at the [http://www.buckinstitute.org/Home.htm Buck Institute for Age Research], Novato, California, USA, August 4, 2006.
* [http://www.ams.ucsc.edu/seminars/oct10_05b.html Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity] - abstract of invited lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Applied Mathematics & Statistics (AMS) and CSTAR Research Seminars, October 10, 2005.
* [http://longevity-science.org/Reliability-Chicago-2005.ppt Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity] - Power-Point Presentation of invited lecture at the University of Chicago. The Ecology and Evolution Natural History Seminar, Department of Ecology and Evolution, May 10, 2005.
* [http://longevity-science.org/IABG-Gavrilov.html Reliability-Engineering Approach to the Problem of Biological Aging] - invited presentation at the 10th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology, Cambridge University, England, September 19-23, 2003.
===Media coverage===
* [http://longevity-science.org/TheScientist.pdf “Aging, in Theory: A Personal Pursuit. Do body system redundancies hold the key? “] The Scientist, 16(10): 20, May 13, 2002
* [http://longevity-science.org/IEEE-Spectrum-10.pdf “Engineering and Aging: The Best Is Yet to Be“] IEEE Spectrum - September 2004, 41(9): 10.
* [http://www.iienet.org/magazine/magazinefiles/IENOV2004_outliers_p66.pdf “Human Reliability. We break down just like machines“] Industrial Engineer - November 2004, 36(11): 66
*[http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/51394/ Scientists Have Found the Gene That Decides How Long We Live]
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