News and Press Releases

By Stanford Medicine - SciTechDaily Many of us, upon reaching middle age, observe a decline in memory and cognitive abilities. However, the exact molecular changes in the brain responsible for this are not fully understood by scientists. However, a recent study...

by University of Queensland - SciTechDaily Researchers at The University of Queensland have found an anti-aging function in a protein deep within human cells. Associate Professor Steven Zuryn and Dr. Michael Dai at the Queensland Brain Institute have discovered that a...

by Megan Bard - College of the Holy Cross From experimentation to, ideally, publication, biology majors examine how stem cells age, with hopes to better understand how they could be used to treat disease. Julia Paxson, DVM, associate professor of biology and head of...

by Impact Journals LLC - MedicalXpress A new editorial paper titled "A novel theory of ageing independent of damage accumulation" has been published in Aging. The underlying cause or causes of aging are an enduring mystery, but in 1977, Kirkwood postulated that...

By Kristina Marusic - Environmental Health News Air pollution takes 2.2 years off global average life expectancy, according to a report published today. This impact on global life expectancy is comparable to the impact of smoking, six times higher than that of...

Source: University of Texas at Arlington Tears to the glenoid labrum-;cartilage tissue that lines the shoulder where the arm joins can be repaired with arthroscopic surgery, which significantly weakens the joint and involves a lengthy recovery. Liping Tang, a...

By Lisa Aubry - Loma Linda University Health Within less than a year of his diagnosis, Ronney Hester pushed his multiple myeloma into complete remission, meaning all signs and symptoms of the blood cancer disappeared. With his fatigue and breathlessness out of the...

By Technology Networks A research team led by Professor Jong Kyoung Kim from the Department of Life Sciences at POSTECH along with Professor Seung-Hoi Koo from the Division of Life Sciences at Korea University and principal researcher Geum-Sook Hwang from Korea Basic...

William A. Haseltine - Forbes The Klotho gene has gained increasing attention for its anti-aging properties. In the most recent installment of this series, we explored the promising cognitive benefits of administering Klotho to both mice and monkeys, the results from...

By The Week Exciting findings show potential to extend vitality and combat age-related illnesses A new study sheds light on a significant breakthrough in the fight against aging and age-related diseases. The research, led by Dr. Bimal N. Desai and his team at the...

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...