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Biological exceptionalism: How two Italian sisters lived to 100

Ricki Lewis | 
In my endless email about COVID-19 popped up a new paper analyzing the health of two Italian sisters who lived ...
Live to 150? That’s what some AI algorithms claim is possible. What does the science say?

Live to 150? That’s what some AI algorithms claim is possible. What does the science say?

Ricki Lewis | 
We’re obsessed with aging. In the quest to prolong life while remaining healthy, people have tried everything from turtle soup ...
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Can science reverse physical aging? It can—in mice

Even though the average life-expectancy for humans continues to rise, living longer is often associated with age-related health issues. Now, ...
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Aging eyes? Staring at bright red light could rescue your vision

Ryan Prior | 
A few minutes of looking into a deep red light could have a dramatic effect on preventing eyesight decline as ...
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Cells that fight pathogens might also speed up human ‘inflammaging’

Mitch Leslie | 
Our T cells let us down as we age, becoming weaker pathogen fighters. This decline helps explain why elderly people ...
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Searching for genetic fountain of youth? Study suggests we’ll never find a ‘longevity gene’

Amanda Elizabeth Kowalczyk | 
What do naked mole rats, elephants, bats and whales have in common? They are all exceptionally long-lived mammals, and recent ...
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Destroying inflammatory ‘zombie’ cells could slow age-related disease

Katarina Zimmer | 
For decades, scientists had ignored senescent cells—which are trapped in a long-term state of cell cycle arrest—dismissing them as artifacts ...
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Debunking anti-aging myths and why no ‘single intervention’ is going to help us live forever

Harriet Hall | 
Today there are countless modern versions of the Fountain of Youth. Dietary supplements and other treatments are claimed to reverse ...
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Promises and pitfalls of treating aging like a disease

Joelle Renstrom | 
Over the years, the movement to classify aging as a disease has gained momentum not only from longevity enthusiasts but ...
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Is being obese similar to being old? Both make the body vulnerable to life-threatening diseases, researchers say

Globally, an estimated 1.9 billion adults and 380 million children are overweight or obese. According to the World Health Organization, ...
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Viewpoint: We still haven’t agreed on the definition of biological aging. That needs to change

Patti Neighmond | 
I’ve been committed to understanding the biology of aging since I was a teenager, and my education and career took ...
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What’s your ‘ageotype’? Classification system explains why some of us are older—or younger—than we look

Ricki Lewis | 
Study shows that "it’s possible to change the way you age for the better." ...
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Aging is ‘truly personal’: You could have the immune system of a teenager and the metabolism of a 50-year-old

Sharon Begley | 
One 50-year-old has the nimble metabolism of a teenager, while another’s is so creaky he developed type 2 diabetes — ...
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Age isn’t the thing that saps our memories: ‘Experiencing new things is the best way to keep the mind young’

Daniel Levitin | 
Twenty-year-olds don’t think, “Oh dear, this must be early-onset Alzheimer’s.” They think, “I’ve got a lot on my plate right ...
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‘Proteomic clock’ could measure our true biological age through a blood test

Andrew Joseph | 
A few hundred of the thousands of proteins circulating in our blood turn out to be a fairly accurate forecaster ...
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Aging as a preventable disease: Why living to 100 should be easy

Harriet Hall | 
Science is investigating some intriguing clues suggesting that aging and death may not be as inevitable as we thought. David ...
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Anti-aging pill ‘5 to 12 years away’

Amy Fleming | 
[I]magine if, instead of a pill you could take to live for ever, there was a pill that could push ...
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An argument for why no one should live past 75

Ezekiel Emanuel, Stephen Hall | 
[Physician Ezekiel] Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations ...
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If we classified aging as a disease, would it change the way we treat it?

David Adam | 
What would change if we classified aging itself as the disease?  David Sinclair, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, is ...
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Werner syndrome and the curious case of the Japanese man who is aging too fast

Erika Hayasaki | 
Nobuaki Nagashima has Werner syndrome, which causes his body to age at super speed. This condition is teaching us more ...
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Dementia warning signs: Unpaid bills, inappropriate comments, weight changes, reminders for simple tasks

Susan Berger | 
What is attributable to normal aging as opposed to cognitive decline associated with dementia?  It is common to misplace keys ...
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Is there any point in living longer if we can’t stay young?

Adam Gopnik | 
Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. ... "...Over the past century, ...
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Worried about low T? Treatments may be a costly placebo—and could even hurt you

Meredith Knight | 
Testosterone therapy does little to counter the effects of aging. But it does have the potential to be harmful for ...
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Electrical brain zaps show promise at improving memory in older adults

Sharon Begley | 
Shooting electrical current into the brain for just 25 minutes reversed the decline in working memory that comes with aging, ...
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Longevity science: Pioneer biotech startup wants to slow aging at ‘the cellular level’

Alexandra Sifferin | 
What sets [Harvard geneticist David] Sinclair apart from many of his colleagues...is his willingness to test his work on himself ...
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Can we slow aging by killing off toxic cells? This small human study passed its first test

Karen Weintraub | 
A red-hot anti-aging strategy quietly passed its first test earlier this year after 14 volunteers took drugs meant to kill off ...
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