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The Biggest Questions: What is death?
by Rachel Nuwer - MIT Technology Review - The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some of the deepest, most mind-bending questions of our existence. Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death...
Why precision medicine is changing how we treat aging
By Kyle Umipig - Longevity.Technology- From peptides to stem cells, a physician shows how regenerative medicine is reshaping chronic pain and healthy aging in practice. If you’ve ever wondered whether regenerative medicine and peptide therapies are hype or reality,...
Scientists Identify Key Protein That Could Reverse Brain Aging
By National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine - SciTechDaily - A newly identified protein helps aging brains regenerate neural stem cells. Scientists at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have...
Rethinking longevity: Genes account for 50% of human lifespan variation, study suggests
by Weizmann Institute of Science - MedicalXpress - What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low compared to other...
Defeating death: ‘Vitalists’ seek to rebrand the longevity movement
Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review - The Genetic Literacy Project - - The Vitalist Bay Summit … hosted various events to explore tools—from drug regulation to cryonics—that might be deployed in the fight against death. One of the main goals, though, was to...
The pursuit of understanding human longevity
By Pawel Kordowitzki & Kejun Ying - NPJ | Aging - Precise recommendations for humans to reach more than 100 years remain elusive. A recent multiomics study revealed that extreme age and poor health are not inherently linked. Longevity stems from a multifactorial...
A longevity researcher changed his routine after visiting an island ‘Blue Zone’ where people live to 100
By Gabby Landsverk - Business Insider - Steven Austad is a gym fanatic. As the director of an anti-aging research nonprofit, he's deeply aware that exercise might be the closest thing we have to a longevity cure-all. That's why he puts in about an hour a day on his...
A Greek myth explains the biggest challenge facing oncologists like me
By Gilberto Lopes - STAT - Modern oncology can help people live far longer. How do we make that time livable? In Greek mythology, the goddess Eos falls in love with Tithonus, a mortal prince of Troy. She asks Zeus to grant him immortality — but forgets to ask for...
Longevity In The U.S.: The Gap Between Lifespan and Health Span
By Heidi Borst - Forbes - Longevity is a buzzword among the health conscious, with a shift in focus from merely living longer to living with vitality. From scientific innovations to personalized lifestyle interventions, staying healthy well into our advanced years has...
Scientists uncover a hidden aging program in the gut that fuels cancer risk
By ScienceDaily - Although the gut renews itself constantly, its stem cells accumulate age-related molecular changes that quietly alter how genes are switched on and off. Scientists found that this “epigenetic drift” follows a clear pattern and appears in both aging...
New stem cell treatment may offer hope for Parkinson’s disease
Keck Medicine of USC investigates a unique therapy that aims to repair damaged brain cells LOS ANGELES — Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United States, with approximately 90,000 new cases...
Scientists discover protein that rejuvenates aging brain cells
by National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine - ScienceDaily - A newly identified protein may hold the key to rejuvenating aging brain cells. Researchers found that boosting DMTF1 can restore the ability of neural stem cells to regenerate, even...