aging
An Anti-Aging Pill?
Posted in Medicine on 4th Feb, 2015
by Alex Muller
Elysium Health, says it will be turning chemicals that lengthen the lives of mice and worms into over-the-counter vitamin pills that people can take to combat aging.
Telomere extension turns back some aspects of aging in cultured human cells
Posted in Medicine on 24th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
A procedure can efficiently increase the length of human telomeres, the protective caps on chromosomes that are linked to aging.
Young blood appears to boost the longevity of mice and gets stem cells to start dividing
Posted in Medicine on 22nd Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Young blood seems to turn back the some of the effects of aging, potentially with few known safety concerns in humans.
Bilingual people do neural exercise that may protect the aging brain
Posted in Medicine on 14th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
A radical shift from decades ago when psychologists warned against raising children to speak two languages, lest they become confused and suffer delays in learning.
Radical Life Extension is getting more mainstream and is getting more funding
Posted in Business on 13th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
5 years ago the consensus was that aging research was unlikely to lead to anything practical. Now its becoming a hot field.