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New Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation aims for scientific and rhetorical value – and to run the debug cycle for longevity research Author: Eleanor Gart  - Logevisty Technology The Longevity Investors Conference is quickly turning into one of the highlights in the...

Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth. By Antonio Regalado - MIT Technology Review A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to a skin...

by Deep Longevity - MedicalXpress Molecular damage accumulates and contributes to the development of aging-related frailty and serious diseases. In some people these molecular processes are more intense than in others, a condition commonly referred to as accelerated...

Sleep has been long celebrated as the ultimate pick-me-up after a period of excessive labor, stress, illness, or other cause of bodily strain. It affects immunity and inflammatory pathways, thus protecting against cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative conditions...

By Holly Lebowitz Rossi - Guideposts New research connects how we feel about aging with health risks in later years. No matter how much we might tell ourselves about being “young at heart,” age happens. Some of us might consider advanced age to be a gift, something...

by Queensland University of Technology - MedicalXpress Artificial 3D blood vessels that have the strength, structure and complex cellular make-up of real blood vessels have been developed by Singapore and QUT scientists for research into many diseases. Associate...

UB’s Team Alice gives students, providers and the public the tools they need in order to prevent potentially lethal medical errors in older adults By Ellen Goldbaum - University of Buffalo News BUFFALO, N.Y. – The nation’s oldest charitable organization dedicated to...

By Kathleen Wilber & Kelly Marnfeldt - Nature Agiing Elder abuse has been recognized as a serious problem for decades. Yet rigorous studies are rare. Burnes and colleagues move the field forward by identifying how pervasive the problem is, the factors that...

By Molly Smith - Loma Linda University Health Danilo Vitorovic, MD, a neurologist at Loma Linda University Health, supports claims that severe COVID-19 may age the brain by decades. Brain fog, anxiety, and sleep disturbances are some long-haul COVID-19 symptoms, but...

Miniature organoids are being implanted into animals. Humans are next. By Jessica Hamzelou - MIT Technology Review To the naked eye, organoids aren’t much to look at. They’re basically tiny blobs. Closer inspection reveals their true complexity: these lab-grown balls...

Image caption: The UCI research team is directed by (seated, from left) Frank LaFerla, Andrea Tenner and Kim Green. Other investigators include (standing, from left) Marcelo Wood, Arthur Lander, Grant MacGregor, Ian Smith, Vivek Swarup, Craig Stark, Andre Obenaus and...

By Stephen Vicinanza - Interesting Engineering Findings show it’s possible to reverse the aging process by overexpressing the NANOG protein University of Buffalo scientists have undertaken a study that shows a process to reverse aging in muscle cells. Aging in muscle...