anti-aging

New research in hundreds of mice on different diet regimes suggests that a careful balance of restricting calorie intake and limiting eating to the most active hours of the day could significantly extend lifespan.

A new study has not only highlighted how gut bacteria can influence inflammation and brain health, but demonstrated how hallmarks of aging in the brain, gut and eyes might even be reversed through fecal transplants.

Through experimentation with a highly promising anti-aging technique, scientists at the UK's Babraham Institute have demonstrated a new way of turning back the clock in human skin cells, so they function like cells 30 years younger.

Through experiments on mice and humans, Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that an emerging class of drugs called senolytics can help protect against aging and its related diseases, by acting on a protein long associated with longevity.

New research at the Salk Institute has demonstrated how a set of anti-aging molecules known as Yamanaka factors can safely reverse signs of aging in middle-aged and elderly mice, which showed no evidence of health problems following extended treatment.

A study investigating the health effects of long-term calorie restricted diets in humans has homed in on a protein that seems to play a key role in age-related immune dysfunction, and the researchers hypothesize it could be targeted to extend lifespan.

Many symptoms of aging are attributed to senescent cells that have stopped dividing. In a new study, researchers developed a vaccine that targets a protein specific to these cells and clears them away, with tests on mice reducing the effects of aging.

New research in old mice undergoing an increasingly demanding fitness regime has shown how exercise can lead to rejuvenated skeletal muscle, with the tissue showing characteristics of mice eight weeks younger.

Regular exercise is generally a good idea at any age, but maintaining an active lifestyle is especially important as we move into older age. A new discovery from scientists in Australia has shed further light on the reasons why.

Giving elderly mice blood transfusions from younger mice can reverse some effects of aging. A new study identifies a specific component of young blood that improves muscle repair function lost with time, potentially opening new anti-aging therapies.

New research out of China has uncovered a natural compound in grape seeds that takes aim at dysfunctional senescent cells, and demonstrated how it can extend the lifespan of aging mice by more than nine percent.

Aging affects everybody, so it’s easy to understand why so much scientific attention is focused on studying it. Scientists in Canada now claim to have found that telomeres play a different role in cellular aging than previously thought.