Month: December 2022

While our team is taking some well earned rest and relaxation over Christmas (very important for health and longevity) we wanted to share our recent activities with you. Wishing you a happy holiday! Hi, this is Stephanie Dainow, the Executive Director here at Lifespan.io. I would like to take the opportunity to personally wish you...

Ryan O'Shea discusses foundations that use crypto donations to fund longevity science on this episode of Lifespan News. Script Giving season is upon us once again, and recently announced, there are new and innovative ways for you to help accelerate the defeat of aging. Two of the most prominent organizations leading the fight against age-related...

A paper just published in Nature Aging has explained how changes to the lamina contribute to heart weakness in model organisms. A protective enclosure for genetic stability Lamin proteins enclose the nucleus in the lamina, the cellular envelope that contains and protects DNA. In progeria, a mutation of the gene that codes for the Lamin...

Having received over 200 applications, VitaDAO recently announced the close of its third successful cohort of Longevity Fellowship funding. Having already funded over $45,000 (USD) to 48 fellows, the DAO's latest cohort of researchers hope to further longevity science. What is the Longevity Fellowship? The Longevity Fellowship is a needs-based grant designed to offer financial...

In a new study published in Nature Aging, researchers have shown that aging is associated with a decreased expression of long transcripts over multiple tissues across several animal species [1]. Global changes It is well known that aging is accompanied by changes in the expression of many genes. Therefore, numerous studies have focused on identifying...

The Longevity Summit at the Buck Institute, a relatively short two-day geroscience and longevity biotech conference held on December 6-7, was nevertheless densely packed with new research – to the point where we can only cover some of the talks here. The conference was organized by Longevity SF, a nonprofit organization founded by Christin Glorioso,...