Sleeping is so easy you could, well, do it in your sleep. For now, anyway – you may not always have it so good. By our twilight years many of us...
When copy-paste attacks: A possible answer to the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease
The first thing you’ll notice if you look at existing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is that they don’t work. The second thing you’ll notice is th...
Do aging circadian clocks have tricks up their sleeves?
Most lifeforms wrap their lives around a 24 hour wheel that dictates when to rise, when to eat, when to grow, and when to sleep. From its seat in a pa...
Intriguing results for Thioflavin T, but reproducibility is the real winner in CITP
Bolstering results from a 2011 study, a team led by Buck Institute researcher Gordon Lithgow found the compound Thioflavin T to increase the lifespan ...
Flip this epigenome: Making old mice good as new
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies knew it could be done in principle–all you had to do to erase the telltale signs of agin...
TAME: Teaching old diabetes drugs new tricks
In 2014, researchers behind a study comparing two diabetes drugs were surprised to find that not only did patients on one of the medications have high...