Part of a series on the Hallmarks of Aging. Proteins don’t do everything in your body, but it’s fair to say they control everything. What they don’t d...
Can reducing PPAR-γ save the immune system?
One contributor to the aging of your immune system is that your thymus–the gland that turns leukocytes into T cells–is slowly replaced by ...
A peek inside the companies using AI to combat aging
Last Wednesday I attended the Buck Institute’s workshop on AI and Longevity, where speakers from several different organizations discussed how t...
The Aging Immune System
The immune system degrades as we age. The elderly get sick more often, take longer to recover from illness or injury, are more prone to cancer, and mo...
The Hallmarks of Aging: Epigenetic Alterations
All cells in your body have the same DNA, yet they express different proteins and do different things. How does that happen? Various alterations in y...
The Hallmarks of Aging: Telomere Attrition
Part of the Hallmarks of Aging series. What–and why–are telomeres? The chromosomes that store your genetic information are capped at each ...