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High Blood Pressure May Accelerate the Aging of Your Bones
By The American Heart Association - Sci Tech Daily According to a recent mouse study presented at an American Heart Association convention, high blood pressure may accelerate the aging of bones. According to a recent study presented at the American Heart Association’s...
Inside Saudi Arabia’s $20 Billion Bet On Longevity Biotechnology
By Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD - Forbes From 0 to 1 - Saudi Arabia’s Technology Dream I visited Saudi Arabia (KSA) for the first time in my life in July, 2022. It broke all stereotypes and reminded me of visiting Shenzhen in 2002. There is no religious police on the...
Scientists Successfully Reverse Premature Aging
By King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) - Sci Tech Daily A new, promising target for treating premature aging. Werner Syndrome and Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome are two examples of the rare genetic disorders known as progeroid syndromes...
Aubrey de Grey on longevity at scale
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...
How scientists want to make you young again
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...
Being lonely and unhappy accelerates aging more than smoking, study finds
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...
The impact of sleep fragmentation on the clonal diversity of immune cells and the genetic aging of the hematopoietic system
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...
Are Positive Thinkers Healthier as We Age?
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...
Novel technique creates intricate, life-like blood vessels for heart disease research
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...
Partnership with the National Council on Aging brings UB’s program on the dangers of overmedication to a national audience
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...
Silent suffering: the plague of elder abuse
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...
Lasting brain impacts from COVID-19 are equivalent to decades of aging
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...