News and Press Releases

By Leila Gray - University of Washington - A novel health-assessment tool that uses eight metrics derived from a person’s physical exam and routine lab tests could be used to characterize biological age and predict the person’s risk of disability and death better than...

By Tina Reed - Axios - Silicon Valley billionaires like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos are pouring billions into ventures trying to slow or reverse the aging process, wagering that reprogrammable cells and AI-driven drug design can deliver a fountain of youth...

By Kevin McMahon - Healthspan Action Coalition - Join our hosts, Junaid Mian of 1435 Capital Management and Melissa King from the Healthspan Action Coalition for this edition of Healthspan Compass. In this episode, our hosts aim to establish a foundational...

By Sanford Brnham Prebys - This month, researchers participating in the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes or CIAO study will gather in Acciaroli (Pollica-Cilento) Salerno, Italy to review a decade of work and plan their next steps. Launched in 2016, the CIAO study...

By Michael Searles - The Telegraph - Selfies could predict a person’s chance of surviving cancer, a study has suggested. Doctors believe a new artificial intelligence tool that measures the “biological age” of a patient based on a photo of their face, could inform the...

By Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - New research reveals senescence is not a single process but a spectrum of cellular states with implications for precision longevity therapies. The accumulation of senescent cells is increasingly seen as a major contributor to...

By City of Hope - SciTechDaily - City of Hope researchers have identified a new type of stem cell, called CP-As, that emerges in middle age and drives the production of belly fat by converting into fat cells, explaining age-related abdominal weight gain. Their...

By By Nature Publishing Group -SciTechDaily - A new study involving over 700 older adults suggests that taking one gram of omega-3 daily may help slow biological aging, with effects visible in molecular markers known as epigenetic clocks. When combined with vitamin D...

The month of May is designated "Huntington's Disease Awareness Month". The proclamation was made in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. This is time dedicated to raising awareness about the condition, supporting families impacted by it, and promoting research towards...

By Neuroscience News - A new study reveals that immune resilience, a person’s ability to maintain a robust, youthful immune system, plays a critical role in promoting long-term health and extending life. By analyzing data from over 17,000 individuals, researchers...

by Josh Conway - Lifespan.io - Researchers have discovered a cocktail of micro-RNA strands that make some extracellular vesicles (EVs) effective in reducing cellular senescence and published their findings in Aging Cell. The researchers began their paper discussing...

by James Dean, Cornell University - Medical Express - In a demographically diverse sample of healthy people, Cornell researchers found dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the brain's "blue spot"—a tiny region involved in cognition and believed to be the first...