lifespan

In October 2014, [physician and medical ethicist] Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to ...

When 109-year-old Jessie Gallan was asked about the secret to her long life, she replied “staying away from men.” Other ...

When day breaks, they go out in their yard and face the rising sun — Thaddeus [Owen] in shorts and ...

As researchers learn more about how exercise fights chronic ills like heart disease and diabetes, doctors may soon be able ...

Co-founder and CEO [of Insilico Medicine] Alex Zhavoronkov said he believes there is no greater goal in healthcare today—or, really, ...

Jamie Metzl is a technology and healthcare futurist and geopolitical expert, novelist, entrepreneur, media commentator, and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic ...

“Upload DNA data and know more about yourself,” promises Genomelink, anywhere from fitness-related attributes, such as longevity, pulmonary function, and job-related ...

[I]magine if, instead of a pill you could take to live for ever, there was a pill that could push ...

[Physician Ezekiel] Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations ...

Transhumanism is a patchwork of beliefs about how technology will enhance the human condition, maybe radically so. There are Extropians ...

Though predicting an exact day is far from likely, an experimental blood test may be able to tell an individual’s ...

With life expectancies steadily rising in most countries, high quality care is essential for aging populations ...

Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. ... "...Over the past century, ...

There have been studies saying coffee drinking increases longevity and general health and also studies to the contrary. Now, the ...

Ray Kurzweil, Google’s chief futurist, says that if you can just hang on until 2029, medical advances will start to ...

Explorers have dreamt for centuries of a Fountain of Youth, with healing waters that rejuvenate the old and extend life ...

Yet another study highlights the importance of getting up and doing something—anything!—to be physically active. It suggests that sedentary people ...

The horrors of the Holocaust were once thought to have inflicted a deadly legacy on the health of survivors. … But ...

Existing research has shown that, on average, women tend to live longer than men, and many mammals show this same ...

An intriguing phenomenon has emerged in recent years: among very old people, the rate at which people die appears to decline when ...

Estimates predict that somewhere between 15 percent and 30 percent of the variability in human lifespan is due to genetics ...

[P]eople with serious mental illness die 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population. It’s not difficult to understand why. Even ...

[Scientist Alex Zhavoronkov] firmly believes that aging research is the most important field of science right now. In the past, ...

The 20th century was a period of unprecedented biological growth for our species. The average human lifespan increased from 31 years in ...

Is the secret to extending human life span written in our genes? Clues from other organisms suggest it might be ...