Imagine that today is your first day at a brand new job, and your new boss slaps an enormous booklet on your desk, then walks off without a word. The ...
Space aging
People have been talking about terraforming and colonizing Mars since the beginning of space travel, and in the past few years that ambition seems to ...
An ounce of prevention | Interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part iii)
For the most part, we know how to mitigate the chronic diseases that plague people in their older years–eat healthily from early on, and get ple...
Using neurodegeneration to fight cancer safely and effectively
The "magic bullet", a universal solution to target all cancer types without harming normal body cells, is what early cancer researchers thought we'd i...
The chaotic inner life of cancer
(Continued from part I) Most people who’ve meet cancer on the battlefield of treatment, doctors or patients, come away with the impression of a robust...
What’s new in media and industry: Who’s who in longevity, and more
Here’s our handpicked selection of the best interviews, blog posts, popular articles, and breaking biotech news of the last two weeks: Want a systemat...
Glucosamine: The new metformin? | Interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part ii)
Last week when we heard from Dr. Ristow, he turned the outdated notion of the “free radical theory of aging” on its head, and demonstrated that antiox...
Cancer’s little helper
A menacing shadow looms large over the body. Lessons we’ve learned from the eternal struggle of organism against cell are etched into the farthest cor...
Research roundup: The naked (mole rat) truth, and more
What good is a longer life if you have to spend half of it keeping up with the news? Ditch those endlessly scrolling feeds, and instead join us every ...
Free radicals are not your enemy | An interview with Dr. Michael Ristow (part i)
Dr. Michael Ristow, a professor of energy metabolism at ETH Zurich, bases much of his research into aging on a premise that many of us will find surpr...