Targeting Redox Biology to Reverse Mitochondrial Dysfunction
Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, generating chemical fuel stores that can be used to power cellular processes. They are important in aging, and this has a lot to do with the generation of...
View ArticleThe Cost of Living Longer, Even in Good Health
There are many comparatively simple genetic alterations that enable animals of various different laboratory species to live between 10% to 60% longer. These are changes to the operation of metabolism:...
View ArticleSigns of Progress: Insurers Talk of Radical Life Extension
I had somehow missed this event from earlier in the year, a provocative (by mainstream standards) ad campaign mounted by a portion of the insurance industry: “The First Person To Live To 150 Is Alive...
View ArticleThe Current State of Knowledge of Genetics and Longevity
The interaction between genes, metabolism, and natural variations in longevity is an enormously complex space. This complexity is why efforts to slow aging by altering metabolism are doomed to be a...
View ArticleSeven Traits Associated with Good Health and Longevity
When we talk about what it takes to live a long life, we have a tendency to get hung up on the physical parameters associated with wellness, whether it be diet, exercise, or the myriad of other...
View ArticleComprehensive Therapy Regimen Shown to Reverse Symptoms of Early Alzheimer’s...
In a groundbreaking new clinical trial, three patients suffering from mild to moderate degenerative memory loss experienced a reversal of their misfortune as a result of a new medical...
View ArticleMeasuring the Impact of Cytomegalovirus in Younger People
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the less immediately harmful members of the family of herpesviruses. It is very prevalent: most people have it in their system by the time they are old, but probably...
View ArticleStatin Use Correlates With Higher Telomerase Activity
There has been interest in extending increasing telomerase expression as a means to slow aging for some years. The available tools other than gene therapy are sparse on the ground, however. Telomerase...
View ArticleA Collagen Patch to Spur Heart Tissue Repair
Building patches for damaged hearts is a popular implementation in tissue engineering at the moment: it’s an achievable stepping stone on the way to more complex goals, such as the creation of entire...
View ArticleDecreased mTOR Expression Provides 20% Mean Life Span Extension in Mice
Mammalian (or mechanistic, depending on who you ask) target of rapamycin (mTOR) is the most likely candidate for the next round of billion-dollar research funding devoted to the search for drugs that...
View ArticleChildren of Long-Lived Parents Have Better Immune Systems
The immune system declines greatly with aging, and poor immune response is an important component of age-related frailty: old people become vulnerable to infections that the young can shrug off with...
View ArticleHow Much Money Will You Need If You Live to 123?
Strategies for aspiring centenarians on how to stretch retirement savings over extra decades....
View ArticleStudy Finds Seniors Are Living Longer, Healthier Lives
Research finds seniors are experiencing serious illnesses only near their time of death....
View Article4 Reasons Aging is a Good Thing
We hear a lot about the problems of old age, but there are some benefits to growing older. Source:http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/the-best-life/2013/08/27/4-reasons-aging-is-a-good-thing
View ArticleA Two-Part Report on Global Futures 2045
The 2045 Initiative is a fairly young but comparatively well-backed effort to generate more support for and technological progress towards non-biological means of human life extension: artificial...
View ArticleThe Next Few Years of Research Into Alzheimer’s Disease
A conservative view of what lies ahead for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research sees incremental progress resulting from new and better investigative biotechnologies: In the recently published work “The...
View ArticleA Look Back at Some of the Roots of Modern Thought on Radical Life Extension
The modern movements of transhumanism and support for longevity science have deep roots: you can find early expressions of the ideas of human enhancement and overcoming natural limits on our biology in...
View ArticleDamaging the Biology of Mice to Make them Age More Rapidly Often Tells Us...
Aging is damage: it is the accumulation of broken and obstructed protein machinery and nanoscale structures inside and around our cells. Living beings come with many varied repair systems, so the...
View ArticleCalorie Restriction as a Means to Augment Cancer Therapies
Long term calorie restriction lowers the risk of cancer in addition to extending life in laboratory animals. Here researchers show that short term calorie restriction appears to augment the...
View ArticleAging Insights: Residents Share What It’s Like To Live in a Retirement Community
Aging Insights: Residents Share What It’s Like To Live in a Retirement Community....
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