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Your Organs Are Aging On Different Timelines, Study Suggests
By StudyFinds Analysis - StudyFinds - Blood vessels might already be showing wear and tear by the time an individual turns 35, decades before some other organs start to change. A new study suggests that’s not random. Different tissues appear to follow distinct...
Dogs may hold surprising clues to human longevity
by Texas A&M University - SceinceDaily - Dogs and humans may have more in common when it comes to aging than scientists realized. Researchers with the Dog Aging Project found that patterns of small molecules in dogs’ blood were linked to longer or shorter lifespans in...
Multilingual people may have brains up to 13 years younger
by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies -ScienceDaily - People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier and...
Which Anti-Aging Ideas Actually Work? XPrize Healthspan Is Testing The Best Longevity Innovations
by Alice Park - Time - Jamie Justice admits she has no poker face. As executive director of XPrize Healthspan, a philanthropic and corporate sponsored competition, Justice oversees one of the most buzz-worthy science competitions today. The contest, launched in 2023,...
Scientists compared 51 longevity studies to see which aging biomarkers respond most reliably
By Pooja Toshniwal Paharia - Medical Life Science News - A large-scale comparison of human longevity studies reveals why some epigenetic clocks detect biological changes far more consistently than others. n a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine,...
This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age
by University of California - Irvine - ScienceDaily - The 400-year-old Greenland shark may hold surprising secrets to keeping eyes healthy for a lifetime. Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with...
New study finds at least 24.5 percent of NFL players who died from 2016 to 2021 had CTE
By Mike Florio - Pro Football Talk - The NFL may not be interested in doing business with the New York Times, after all. As the league and The Athletic (owned and operated by the Times) reportedly discuss a content partnership that would create a clear conflict of...
A striking immune cell pattern emerges around a person’s 100th birthday
By Tarun Sai Lomte - Medical and Life Sciences News - In a recent study published in the journal Cell Reports, researchers characterized CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CD4 CTLs) in supercentenarians. Aging is marked by a gradual functional decline, driven by cellular...
Muscle repair fails when stem cells lose their identity
ByEric Ralls - earth.com - A protein that guards the tips of chromosomes turns out to be what keeps muscle able to repair itself for a lifetime. When you pull a muscle, specialized repair cells along the fibers spring into action to rebuild the tissue. But keeping...
Oldest human brain cells grown in lab ‘recorded passage of time
by Daniel Lawler - Phys Org - Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads, suggesting they "recorded the passage of time," scientists said Wednesday. These tiny clumps, called organoids,...
OHSU researcher awarded $4.2 million to advance stem cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration
By Angela Yeager - Oregon Health & Science University - The NIH award supports development of stem cells designed to avoid immune rejection, preserve vision. Millions of older adults face vision loss from age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, a leading cause of...
Supercentenarians’ Immune System May Explain Their Longevity
Written byLaura Tran, PhD - The Scientist - People who live past 100 years old appear to have an abundance of specialized T cells that may help protect them against infection and cancer. Aging is an inevitable part of life, but some remarkable individuals remain...