April 25, 2017
Today, we bring you an interview with Dr. Marvin Formosa, director of the International Institute on Ageing of the United Nations, Malta (INIA). First, let's find out how the issue of population aging was first introduced into the agenda of the United Nations and why the UN body focused on aging is located in Malta....
April 23, 2017
The CRISPR system (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) has exploded onto the biotech sector as a relatively simple, highly efficient, and fast method for precisely introducing breaks into genomic loci [1-2]. The realization that it is a prokaryotic acquired immune system, although less often mentioned, has been equally paradigm changing [3]. Ironically, it's the...
April 21, 2017
On May 16-19th, renowned researchers and advocates of healthy life extension will gather in Paris to discuss recent breakthroughs in regenerative medicine. The conference organized by the International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA), "The Ins and Outs of Cellular Senescence: Understanding the Biology to Foster Healthy Aging and Suppression of Disease", will take place in the...
April 18, 2017
Spring is the best time to celebrate life and remember all the good things that we have achieved to improve and protect human life. One of the organizations which contributed the most to the development of healthcare systems around the globe is the World Health Organization founded by the United Nations. WHO's constitution came into...
April 18, 2017
The battle against aging is not going to be an easy one, and it will likely require the most refined tools modern science has to offer. Among them, artificial intelligence may be one of the most promising and is being extensively used by biogerontology researchers such as Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov. Helping to drive progress in...
April 15, 2017
The new research work on senolytic drugs by Baar et al. uses a rationally designed molecule that selectively targets senescent cells in vivo, both in an accelerated aging mouse model, and in normally aged mice as well, with few if any side effects[1]. Senolytics are a new class of potential anti-aging drugs that function by specifically...
