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Longevity Trends

We aim to share with you the most important news and trends in longevity published by the international press, opinion leaders, academic institutions and industry organizations.

Can zapping the brain boost memory?

June 02, 2020

What if you could boost your brain’s processing capabilities simply by sticking electrodes onto your head and flipping a switch? Berkeley, California–based neur...

The quest to slow ageing through drug discovery

June 01, 2020

Although death is inevitable, individuals have long sought to alter the course of the ageing process. Indeed, ageing has proved to be modifiable; by intervening...

Inflammaging: a new immune–metabolic viewpoint for age-related diseases

May 19, 2020

Ageing and age-related diseases share some basic mechanistic pillars that largely converge on inflammation. During ageing, chronic, sterile, low-grade inflammat...

Biological age: how to reduce it in weeks

April 03, 2020

In a new experiment for a programme called How To Beat: Ageing, scientists tried to reverse the damage that our lifestyles cause at a molecular level. Their res...

Daily meditation could slow aging in your brain, study says

March 27, 2020

A recently pubished 18-year analysis of the mind of a Buddhist monk by the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found daily, intensiv...

Why a drug for aging would challenge Washington

March 16, 2020

What if you could live to 85, 90 or even 100 with your mental faculties intact, able to live independently without debilitating conditions until the last year o...

Panic is the corona virus’s best friend

March 13, 2020

While the threat of the Corona virus needs to be taken with great concern, it is as important to understand the useless and counterproductive effects of panicki...

Heavy stress and lifestyle can predict how long we live

March 12, 2020

Life expectancy is influenced not only by the traditional lifestyle-related risk factors but also by factors related to a person's quality of life, such as heav...

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