by admin | Oct 15, 2024 | news articles
By Alexa Mikhail – Fortune – At the turn of the 20th Century, one could expect to live until 47 in the U.S. Now, medical advancements, like vaccines and antibiotics, and public health initiatives have increased life expectancy in the U.S. to 77 years old...
by admin | Oct 14, 2024 | news articles
By Purdue University – With age, some cells in the brain enter a state of senescence: rather than dying or regenerating by dividing, they just linger, alive, but functioning less effectively than normal cells. Senescence in the brain has been linked to cognitive...
by admin | Oct 12, 2024 | news articles
By Dana G. Smith – New York Times In March, Robert Berger, 69, a self-proclaimed “better-living-through-chemistry type of person,” started taking a small dose of rapamycin once a week with the goal of increasing his “health span” — the amount of time he might...
by admin | Oct 11, 2024 | news articles
by Josh Conway – Lifespan.io – Researchers are keeping a bank of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from centenarians and their descendants. They describe the purpose of this bank and its uses in Aging Cell. These researchers built their bank...
by admin | Oct 10, 2024 | news articles
by Pallab Ghosh – BBC – They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates – all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position,...
