Month: May 2017

[Mountain View, September 17, 2025] — Lifespan Research Institute (LRI) today announced the launch of the Public Longevity Group (PLG), a new initiative focused on bridging the cultural gap between scientific breakthroughs in aging and their public acceptance. To kickstart its work, PLG has opened a crowdfunding campaign to develop tools that measure and strengthen...

As human life expectancy has increased throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, this has led to a steady increase in the population of older people. With that increase has come the rise of age-related diseases and disabilities. As a result, it is becoming ever more important to develop preventative strategies to monitor and maintain health...

Researchers at the University of Dundee have shown that it is possible to target and destroy specific proteins within cells using a new directed protein missile system. This is very interesting, as it raises the possibility of targeting aberrant proteins present in diseases that currently have no drug that affects them. This opens the door...