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CIAO Study: A long and ongoing look at the secrets of human longevity and healthy aging
By Sanford Brnham Prebys - This month, researchers participating in the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes or CIAO study will gather in Acciaroli (Pollica-Cilento) Salerno, Italy to review a decade of work and plan their next steps. Launched in 2016, the CIAO study...
Selfies can be used to predict cancer patients’ survival rate
By Michael Searles - The Telegraph - Selfies could predict a person’s chance of surviving cancer, a study has suggested. Doctors believe a new artificial intelligence tool that measures the “biological age” of a patient based on a photo of their face, could inform the...
Senescent skin cells shown to follow three distinct aging paths
By Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - New research reveals senescence is not a single process but a spectrum of cellular states with implications for precision longevity therapies. The accumulation of senescent cells is increasingly seen as a major contributor to...
Scientists Discover Belly Fat “Trigger” in Aging Bodies
By City of Hope - SciTechDaily - City of Hope researchers have identified a new type of stem cell, called CP-As, that emerges in middle age and drives the production of belly fat by converting into fat cells, explaining age-related abdominal weight gain. Their...
Can One Gram of Omega-3 Really Slow Aging? Here’s What Science Says
By By Nature Publishing Group -SciTechDaily - A new study involving over 700 older adults suggests that taking one gram of omega-3 daily may help slow biological aging, with effects visible in molecular markers known as epigenetic clocks. When combined with vitamin D...
May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
The month of May is designated "Huntington's Disease Awareness Month". The proclamation was made in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. This is time dedicated to raising awareness about the condition, supporting families impacted by it, and promoting research towards...
Immune Resilience Identified as Key to Healthy Aging and Longevity
By Neuroscience News - A new study reveals that immune resilience, a person’s ability to maintain a robust, youthful immune system, plays a critical role in promoting long-term health and extending life. By analyzing data from over 17,000 individuals, researchers...
How Extracellular Vesicles From Stem Cells Fight Senescence
by Josh Conway - Lifespan.io - Researchers have discovered a cocktail of micro-RNA strands that make some extracellular vesicles (EVs) effective in reducing cellular senescence and published their findings in Aging Cell. The researchers began their paper discussing...
Brain’s ‘blue spot’ key to healthy aging, early Alzheimer’s detection
by James Dean, Cornell University - Medical Express - In a demographically diverse sample of healthy people, Cornell researchers found dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the brain's "blue spot"—a tiny region involved in cognition and believed to be the first...
Inside the Longevity Clinic Where Rich People Spend $250K to Cheat Death
By Ashley Fike - Vice.com - If you’ve got $250,000 burning a hole in your bloodstream—and want that bloodstream filtered and optimized—Dr. Jonathann Kuo has a plan for you. His West Village clinic, Extension Health, looks more like a luxe day spa than a doctor’s...
The healthiest agers followed this diet, according to a sweeping 30 year longevity study
By Alexa Mikhail - Fortune Well - While there is no silver bullet for healthy aging, there are habits that can help you age well—especially when it comes to what you eat. In a 30-year study, researchers found that a certain diet was associated with healthy aging,...
Bone aging is more complex than previously thought
By News Medical Life Sciences - A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on March 18, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 3, titled "Mitochondrial oxidative stress or decreased autophagy in osteoblast lineage cells is not sufficient to mimic the deleterious...