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Doctors implant dopamine-producing stem cells in Parkinson’s patients
By USC Health Sciences - Science News - A groundbreaking clinical trial is testing whether specially engineered stem cells can help the brain restore its own dopamine production in people with Parkinson’s disease. Because the condition is driven by the gradual loss of...
Cleveland Clinic Survey Finds Americans Optimistic about Aging Well, But Many Overlook Heart Disease Risks
By Cleveland Clinic - As interest in longevity and healthy aging continues to grow, a new national survey from Cleveland Clinic reveals a gap between confidence and awareness when it comes to heart health. According to the 2026 report, nearly 1 in 4 Americans (24%)...
Common Diabetes Drug Linked With ‘Exceptional Longevity’ in Women
By David Nield - Science Alert - Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance of living to the grand old age of 90, according to research published in 2025 – thanks, it seems, to a variety...
Seattle jury awards $24M in lawsuit against stem cell center
By Elise Takahama - Seattle Times - A King County jury has awarded $24 million to the family of a man who died a day after treatment at a Seattle stem cell center. Mike Trujillo was 62, a longtime electrician who ran an electrical company in Colorado. After being...
How Dermatology Is Leading the Regenerative Movement
By Maddi Hebebrand, MC, Associate Editor, David J. Goldberg, MD - Dermatology - At the 2026 South Beach Symposium, David Goldberg, MD, JD, offered a wide-ranging and pragmatic overview of regenerative medicine in dermatology—where it began, why it is accelerating, and...
ARPA-H Emerges as Top Longevity Agency Amid Funding and Staffing Fluctuations
By ArentFox Schiff - On February 3, President Trump signed a $1.2 trillion funding package into law just hours after the House passed the Senate’s amended version of the FY2026 appropriations package, H.R. 7148, ending a brief partial government shutdown that began in...
The Biggest Questions: What is death?
by Rachel Nuwer - MIT Technology Review - The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some of the deepest, most mind-bending questions of our existence. Just as birth certificates note the time we enter the world, death...
Why precision medicine is changing how we treat aging
By Kyle Umipig - Longevity.Technology- From peptides to stem cells, a physician shows how regenerative medicine is reshaping chronic pain and healthy aging in practice. If you’ve ever wondered whether regenerative medicine and peptide therapies are hype or reality,...
Scientists Identify Key Protein That Could Reverse Brain Aging
By National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine - SciTechDaily - A newly identified protein helps aging brains regenerate neural stem cells. Scientists at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have...
Rethinking longevity: Genes account for 50% of human lifespan variation, study suggests
by Weizmann Institute of Science - MedicalXpress - What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low compared to other...
Defeating death: ‘Vitalists’ seek to rebrand the longevity movement
Jessica Hamzelou | MIT Technology Review - The Genetic Literacy Project - - The Vitalist Bay Summit … hosted various events to explore tools—from drug regulation to cryonics—that might be deployed in the fight against death. One of the main goals, though, was to...
The pursuit of understanding human longevity
By Pawel Kordowitzki & Kejun Ying - NPJ | Aging - Precise recommendations for humans to reach more than 100 years remain elusive. A recent multiomics study revealed that extreme age and poor health are not inherently linked. Longevity stems from a multifactorial...