 The book garnered favorable reviews from mainstream newspapers as well as Scientific American.A magisterial academic textbook by Fossel entitled "Cells, Aging, and Human Disease" was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.Since his days as a teacher at Stanford University, Fossel has studied aging from a medical and scientific perspective with a particular emphasis on premature aging syndromes such as progeria, and since at least 1996, he has been a strong and vocal advocate of telomerase therapy as a potential treatment of age-related diseases, disorders, and syndromes such as progeria, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, cancer, and other conditions.