Month: December 2024

The nights are the longest of the year, the holidays are drawing near, and we are back with a festive edition of the Lifespan.io editorial. This time, we bring you some of this year's highlights and talk about what the future holds for our content. Lifespan.io and SENS Research Foundation merge Regulars will recall that...

Earlier this month, for the third year in a row, the famed Buck Institute for Research on Aging hosted the Longevity Summit. This two-day event was organized by Longevity Global, a community of longevity researchers, investors, and enthusiasts, and its founder Dr. Christin Glorioso. While not the biggest or the longest conference in the field,...

Creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) causes mutant mitochondrial populations to change, and researchers have investigated this phenomenon more thoroughly. Easy to mutate Why We Age: Mitochondrial DysfunctionAs they age, the mitochondria in our cells lose their ability to provide cellular energy and release reactive oxygen species that harm cells and cause increasing levels of...

BioAge Labs, Inc. ("BioAge"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases by targeting the biology of human aging, today announced a multi-year research collaboration with Novartis. The collaboration aims to identify and validate multiple novel therapeutic drug targets by investigating the biological mechanisms that drive diseases related to aging and mediate...

A recent investigation into Hungarian Olympic champions suggests slower epigenetic aging and differences in gene methylation patterns between champions and non-champions [1]. Exercising your way to longevity Exercise seems to be the best lifestyle factor to slow aging and alleviates many aging-associated diseases and molecular changes. We have previously reported that exercise positively impacts cognition...

Researchers have published in Aging their findings that a senolytic compound accelerates wound healing in aged mice when it is administered before the wound occurs. A well-known laboratory senolytic While some senescent cells have been found to have a beneficial effect on wound healing [1], the increase in cellular senescence with age has been suspected...