Ben Shenhar

A unified framework links infant vulnerability with aging-related mortality dynamics

The paper shows that stochastic threshold models can explain both early-life and late-life mortality dynamics by incorporating neonatal vulnerability, using U.S. health data.

Maximal human lifespan in light of a mechanistic model of aging

The paper uses a mechanistic model of aging to show that maximal human lifespan is primarily determined by damage production and clearance rates, with lifestyle factors only modestly affecting it.

Heritability of human lifespan is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed

This paper estimates that the heritability of human lifespan is about 50% when accounting for extrinsic factors and cutoff age effects, challenging the consensus that genetics has a minor role in lifespan.

Compression of morbidity by interventions that steepen the survival curve

The paper presents a theory predicting which longevity interventions compress relative sickspan by steepening the survival curve, supported by evidence from mice, C. elegans, and Drosophila.