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.

The problem of Caloric Restriction as an intervention to extend healthspan

March 14, 2022

Humanity has been obsessed with the idea of ‘extending life’ for thousands of years. Philosopher’s stones, fountains of youth, spells, and magic… despite the cl...

Clinical trials targeting aging

January 26, 2022

The risk of morbidity and mortality increases exponentially with age. Chronic inflammation, accumulation of DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria, and increase...

Scuba Diving and Life Expectancy

January 13, 2022

A study of 2,872 pairs of Danish twins concluded that only about 25 percent of life expectancy is attributable to genetics; the other 75 percent is likely due t...

Senolytic vaccination improves normal and pathological age-related phenotypes and increases lifespan in progeroid mice

December 15, 2021

Elimination of senescent cells (senolysis) was recently reported to improve normal and pathological changes associated with aging in mice1,2. However, most seno...

Gut-Brain Connection Research Gets Boost of $8.9 Million

November 03, 2021

Johns Hopkins Medicine is one of three research institutions with scientists awarded $8.9 million to study the growing body of evidence that Parkinson’s disease...

Astera Institute and Buck Institute announce $70 million collaboration to redefine the field of research on aging

October 15, 2021

The Buck Institute and the Astera Institute today announced a comprehensive, multi-omics study of the biological effects of longevity interventions. Through a s...

The economic value of targeting aging

July 19, 2021

Developments in life expectancy and the growing emphasis on biological and ‘healthy’ aging raise a number of important questions for health scientists and econo...

Israeli scientists extend mice’s lives by 23%, say method may work on humans

June 30, 2021

Israeli scientists have boosted the life expectancy of mice by 23 percent, in an advance they hope could eventually be replicated in humans. They increased the...

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