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Breakthrough Drug Reverses Aging in Skin, Speeds Up Healing
By Impact Journals LLC - SciTechDaily - Topical ABT-263 effectively reduced several senescence markers in aged skin, preparing it for improved wound healing. Researchers from Boston University’s School of Medicine have identified a promising treatment that could...
The Resilience Advantage: Aging Gracefully With Confidence
by Romeo Vitelli PhD - Psychology Today - How older adults build resilience to thrive despite life's challenges. As we grow older, it becomes more apparent that resilience, the ability to stay steady and bounce back from stress, plays a vital role in successful aging....
Two personalized nutrition startups snaffle $50m funding rounds
By Danny Sullivan - Information.Technology - Fay and Berry Street demonstrate investor appetite for companies targeting nutrition’s role in disease prevention and health optimization. Dietary change remains one of the few interventions clinically proven to have a...
What’s the maximum human life expectancy?
By Julia Craven - Popular Science - Aging is one of the few things every living thing has in common. Humans, in particular, are living longer today than they did in the past. Much of this is due to societal advances such as vaccines, antibiotics, public health...
Longevity guru Bryan Johnson had a Super Bowl spread with berries, not Buffalo wings
Lloyd Lee - Insider - Bryan Johnson, the longevity guru who has spent millions of dollars on a journey to reverse his biological age, had a Super Bowl LIX spread that emphasized plant-based foods instead of Buffalo wings or pizza. On Sunday, the biotech entrepreneur...
Understanding aging requires more than counting birthdays
By Penn State University - UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — People’s bodies can be old or young for their chronological age, depending, in part, on the amount and types of stressors they have experienced. Scientists can estimate people’s biological age, but whether they use...
Investing in the global race to develop healthspan therapeutics
By Danny Sullivan - Longevity.Technology - On February 4-5, over 2,500 attendees and more than 175 speakers will convene in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the Hevolution Foundation’s second Global Healthspan Summit (GHS). The event, hosted by the global non-profit, will...
How Entrepreneurs Are Turning Longevity Into A Multi-Billion Opportunity
By Alexander Puutio - Forbes - By now, we’ve all heard of Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur who spends $2 million annually in his quest for immortality. For many of us, such an investment is well out of reach, but it taps into a primal instinct we all share: the...
The regions racing to become the “Silicon Valley” of an aging world
By Adam Felts - MIT News - New book from MIT AgeLab researchers applies the concept of innovation clusters to global population aging. In 2018, when Inc. Magazine named Boston one of the country’s top places to start a business, it highlighted one significant reason:...
Japan’s elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail instead
By Jessie Yeung, Hanako Montgomery and Junko Ogura, CNN - The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication. But...
OpenAI Launches Longevity Model: Biotech’s AI Arms Race
By Fitt Insider - Artificial intelligence is disrupting drug discovery. The latest: OpenAI and longevity startup Retro Biosciences created an AI model for cellular reprogramming, the act of converting aging cells to younger, healthier versions (aka stem cells)....
Why Our Biological Clock Ticks: Research Reconciles Major Theories of Aging
By Miles Martin - UC San Diego Today - Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a...