News and Press Releases

By Elanor Garth - Longevity.Technology Next week, on 10-11 August 2023, Lifespan.io will be holding its sixth annual Ending Age-Related Diseases (EARD) conference. Bringing entrepreneurs, investors, pharma and biotech companies, researchers, and government...

by Elanor Garth - Longevity.Technology Established in 2021, Impetus Grants is dedicated to supporting innovative ideas in the aging space that might otherwise be overlooked by traditional funders – go bold, or go home. Now Impetus has announced that it is set to...

By Bill Gifford - Scientific American An expert on aging thinks humans could live to be 1,000 years old—with a few tweaks to our genetic “software” How long can human beings live? Although life expectancy has increased significantly over the past century, thanks...

This promising pill developed at hashtag #CityofHope worked on 70 different cancer cell lines! Capacity to kill ALL solid tumors? Vast implications. How many years before ever reaching patients, if ever? hashtag #healthspanactioncoalition Bernard Siegel By Caitlin...

by Neuroscience News Research indicates both high cognitive abilities and explorative behavior are linked to increased lifespan in wild gray mouse lemurs. Through a series of cognitive and personality tests, applied to 198 lemurs, the team found that those with...

by Eleanor Garth - Longevity.Technology The Longevity Summit Dublin is dedicated to the recognition of emerging research developments aimed at extending the human healthspan. This much-anticipated event brings together leading scientists from around the world,...

Cellular senescence was a key factor. by Josh Conway - Lifespan.io Researchers publishing in Aging Cell have documented a human clinical trial showing that metformin reduces atrophy caused by long periods of bed rest. A common problem and a well-known diabetes drug...

By Carl Zimmer - The New York Times Infusions of youthful blood led older mice to live 6 to 9 percent longer, a new study found. A team of scientists has extended the lives of old mice by connecting their blood vessels to young mice. The infusions of youthful blood...

by Boston Biolife New Webinar offered by Boston Biolife features experts in Longevity Science, a multidisciplinary field focused on understanding the processes of aging and developing interventions to extend a healthy lifespan. Researchers in longevity science aim to...

By Saikiran Chandha - Live Science In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery. Scientific laboratories of the future probably won't have flying robots,...

By Josh Barney - Neuroscience News Summary: Researchers uncovered a key mechanism of aging – improper calcium signaling in the mitochondria of certain immune cells, leading to chronic inflammation. As we age, these mitochondria in macrophages lose their ability to...

‘A step towards affordable whole-body rejuvenation’ by Alexa Mikhail - Fortune Harvard researchers found a “chemical cocktail” that helped reverse aging in mice within a week by rejuvenating old cells within muscles, tissues, and some organs. Aging and longevity...