News and Press Releases

By Hilary Brueck - MSN News Insider - Eternal youth-seekers and investors alike are getting increasingly excited about a concept called "Longevity Escape Velocity." This hypothetical idea borrows its name from "escape velocity," the basic physics principle which...

by Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology - Longevity is a fast-moving field with new research and theories being generated all the time; one of the polarizing questions is whether aging can actually be reversed, and the answer matters, not just so we can satisfy our...

By Sandee LaMotte - CNN - Preventive neurologist Dr Richard Isaacson stared at the numbers on the fax in astonishment. Blood biomarkers of telltale signs of early Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of his patient, 55-year-old entrepreneur Simon Nicholls, had all but...

Interviews by Melissa Hartman - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Aging in America - Shifts in attitudes and policies can pave the way to thriving in later life. Read More - Click Here

By Adam Felts - MIT News - A symposium for financial professionals imagines a new industry around longevity planning. How can people better imagine and plan for their future selves? A two-day event hosted at MIT featured two chief executives at the forefront of an...

By NeuroscienceNews.com - Researchers explore the science behind aging and the ongoing quest for human longevity. They examine the vast variations in lifespans across species and attributes aging primarily to accumulated chemical damage within cells. The findings...

By Emily Cerf - UC Santa Cruz - Targeting this population of platelets could help better treat blood clotting-related diseases As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they don’t need to...

by Dr Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna - Forbes - The quest for longevity transcends cultural and historical boundaries, reflecting humanity’s enduring fascination with life extension and vitality. As a venture capitalist, what drives me is the excitement of blending...

By Robby Berman - Medical news Today - There are ethical and environmental reasons to switch to a more plant-centric diet, as well as a growing body of research suggesting such diets are better for our health. However, a full understanding of the long-term benefits of...

By Amy Marturana Winderl - HeathCentral - A look at the next-gen therapies that hope to turn the field of medicine—and treating age-related chronic conditions—upside down. Taking a person’s own cells out of their body and then putting them back in to heal damaged...

by William A. Haseltine - Forbes - Thirty marks the spot. Starting at this age, we begin to lose approximately three to eight percent of muscle mass per decade. With it, we also lose strength and mobility. Left unaddressed, this loss of muscle —called ‘sarcopenia’ in...

By Alison Abbott - Nature - Our immune system falters over time, which could explain the negative effects of ageing. Stem-cell researcher Carolina Florian didn’t trust what she was seeing. Her elderly laboratory mice were starting to look younger. They were more...