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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...
Boston’s Longevity Obsession: What Works and What’s Expensive BS
By Jamie Ducharme _ Boston City Life - We're becoming more and more fixated on living forever—but not all the treatments are created equal. What works, what doesn’t, and whether optimizing every aspect of your life is really worth it. From GLP-1 injections to NAD+...
Getting a grip on aging
by Jules Bernstein - UC Riverside - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, used functional MRI scans to measure brain activity in older adults as they performed a simple but critical task: squeezing a device with as much force as possible. That...
The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly”
By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review - In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed. Musk...
Muscle stem cells build resilience but lose regenerative power with age
By Tiare Dunlap - UCLA Health - Aging muscles heal more slowly after injury — a frustrating reality familiar to many older adults. A new UCLA study conducted in mice reveals an unexpected cause: Stem cells in aged muscle accumulate higher levels of a protein that...
How the sometimes-weird world of lifespan extension is gaining influence
By MIT Technology Review - For the last couple of years, I’ve been following the progress of a group of individuals who believe death is humanity’s “core problem.” Put simply, they say death is wrong—for everyone. They’ve even said it’s morally wrong. They established...
Living sensor display implanted on skin for long-term biomarker monitoring
By Nature Communications This study introduces an approach to biomarker monitoring through the development of a “Living Sensor Display” implanted on the skin, designed for long-term, continuous tracking of biomarkers, such as inflammatory cytokines. By leveraging the...