Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Sanford Burnham Prebys explore genetic factors in separate papers ...

Research shows that aging doesn' toften happen at a steady pace. Instead, it accelerates at two specific points in life: age ...

The latest hyperfixation among longevity experts appears to be Advanced Glycation End products (conveniently abbreviated as ...

A new Yale study of roundworms, a species with the unique ability to regenerate, reveals that disruptions in the body's ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more people live into their 60s, 70s, and 80s, health care systems across the globe ...

NBER's Training Program in Aging and Health Research, funded by the National Institute on Aging and NBER, under the direction of Professors Amy Finkelstein and David Cutler, gives outstanding ...

Even though aging is the largest risk factor for Parkinson’s disease, the majority of research aimed at taming the incurable neurodegenerative motor disease has largely left aging out of the mix. A ...

Scientists have discovered something unexpected and counterintuitive in their quest to turn back the clock on aging muscle. When researchers restored youthful repair speed to aged muscle cells in mice ...

Aging is a fact of life, but growing older doesn’t necessarily need to come with the various degenerative diseases associated with it. Researchers and industry leaders at aging-focused biotech ...

Since the beginning of mankind, death most often arrived without warning. Early on in our evolution, we lived in a world ...