News and Press Releases

By Stacy Kish - Yale School of Medicine - Our skin protects us from everyday mechanical stresses, like friction, cuts, and impacts. A key part of this function—standing as a bulwark against the outside world—is the skin’s amazing ability to regenerate and heal. But...

By Sarah Knapton - The Telegraph - Blind patients can read and recognise faces again with a “revolutionary bionic chip” that is said to signal a “new era” for artificial vision. The implant is an ultra-thin wireless microchip, measuring 2mm by 2mm, which is inserted...

By StudyFinds - Researchers have created human embryos by taking nuclei from ordinary skin cells, placing them into donated eggs, and fertilizing them with sperm. The work is a laboratory demonstration that shows what might eventually be possible for people who cannot...

By MIT Technology Review - For years, the galaxy of cells, proteins, and molecules that make up our immune systems existed as a mysterious and unknowable force, one with enormous influence over our health but beyond the reach of modern medicine. Now, thanks to new...

By Coleen T. Murphy - Nature - An optimistic take on the state of the longevity field provides hope for treating a range of ageing-related diseases — but feels at odds with the current shape of US research. Super Agers, by clinician Eric Topol, has just been...

By Katharine Lang - Medical News Today - Drinking sufficient water is essential for overall health, as people need to maintain a fluid balance, or homeostasis, to maintain bodily functions. However, that water does not only have to come from the ubiquitous water...

By Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - When the XPRIZE Healthspan competition announced its semifinalists, one name stood out not for the scale of its biotech budget, but for the age of its participants. BIOARMOR, a team of Malaysian high school students, has...

By Mikolaj Ogrodnik - Nature - Abstract Aging is a complex biological process leading to functional decline and disease susceptibility. This article proposes that chronic activation of tissue damage response mechanisms drives aging, with aged organs exhibiting...

By Elizabeth Rayne - Popular Mechanics - Though it has not yet been used much in skincare, pterostilbene could soon generate buzz as the next anti-aging superstar. There is almost no claim anti-aging skincare products won’t make. From brightening and tightening to...

By by Karolinska Institutet - Medical Xpress - People who sleep poorly are more likely than others to have brains that appear older than they actually are. This is according to a comprehensive brain imaging study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the journal...

By Paul Knoepfler - Stat - Snake oil is getting in the way of truly exciting anti-aging research If you hope to live well past the century mark and stay generally healthy in the process, you’re not alone. Recently, Russian and Chinese Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi...

by Bioengineer.org - The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has unveiled an innovative and comprehensive resource entitled Best Practices for the Development of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cellular Therapies, marking a pivotal advancement in the...