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5 foods a longevity expert eats each day to stay biologically 20 years younger than his age
By Alexa Mikhail - Fortune Doctor and longevity expert Dr. Mark Hyman swears by these five foods to age well, live longer, and reduce the risk of chronic disease. The 63-year-old with over 286,000 TikTok followers says he is biologically 20 years younger thanks to his...
UVA Anti-Aging Discovery Could Extend Lifespan
Josh Barney - University of Virginia News University of Virginia scientists have identified a promising approach to delay aging by detoxifying the body of glycerol and glyceraldehyde, harmful by-products of fat that naturally accumulate over time. The new findings...
To Ward Off Aging, Stem Cells Must Take Out the Trash
Nicole Mlynaryk - University of California Sab Diego News UC San Diego scientists find stem cells’ unique way of discarding misfolded proteins could be the key to maintaining long-term health and preventing disease In humanity’s ongoing quest for the elixir of life,...
Hypertension drug could be repurposed to delay ageing, study finds
By University of Liverpool Researchers have found that the drug rilmenidine can extend lifespan and slow ageing. Published in Aging Cell, the findings show that animals treated with rilmenidine, currently used to treat hypertension, at young and older ages increases...
How genetically engineered immune cells are beating some cancers
In some cases, it is now possible to genetically engineer the immune system to banish cancers like T-cell leukaemia that were previously unresponsive to treatments By Michael Le Page - New Scientist ONE of the most amazing things about the immune system is how hard it...
World Stem Cell Summit coming to Winston-Salem as regenerative medicine gains traction
Image Caption: WFIRM research lab technicians Denethia Green and Kristina Stumpf (foreground) test out LabSat® Research, an ultra-rapid automated staining that reduces turnaround times, provided to the RegeneratOR Test Bed by PHC. By The Wake Forest Institute for...
Watch: 3D printing living cells inside human body becomes a reality
by Nergis Firtina - Interesting Engineering Three-dimensional bioprinting uses bio-inks mixed with living cells to print natural tissue-like structures. Currently, this technology can be applied to various research fields, including tissue engineering and drug...
Could gene-editing be used to treat mental illness?
By Sofia Phillips - Thred Just as the technology is promising new therapies for everything from heart disease to cancer, some researchers believe that tinkering with the epigenome could help reverse the damage done by trauma. In recent years, scientists have made...
Bending the Longevity Curve, Peter Attia’s new book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
By Dan Costa - Worth When Peter Attia was in high school, he wanted to be a professional boxer and studied “the sweet science of bruising” with an obsessive focus. These days he is less of a bruiser, but the obsessive study of science remains. Trained as a surgeon,...
OpenAI CEO invested $180 million in longevity company Retro Bio
By Danny Sullivan - Longevity.Technology Sam Altman revealed as mystery investor behind longevity biotech that aims to increase healthy human lifespan by 10 years. Sam Altman, the American entrepreneur, investor and CEO of artificial intelligence giant OpenAI invested...
Extracellular Vesicles as a Hallmark of Aging. These signaling molecules change with senescence and in the gut.
By Josh Conway - Lifespan.io A review paper published in Cells has described multiple ways in which the secretion of extracellular vesicles (EVs) changes with aging, leading the authors to propose it as its own hallmark. Extracellular vesicles and their uses This...
Old muscle stem cells are rejuvenated by a young environment
By Hannah Walters - Nature Aging Now, a study has examined how muscle stem cells and their communication with the niche changes with age. Firstly, muscle tissue from young and old mice was characterized using single-cell RNA sequencing to examine how aging affects the...