“At what age would you like to get Alzheimer’s?” This was the question posed by venture capitalist, former stem cell biologist and G...
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...
Research roundup: Scars into hearts, and more
We can reprogram existing scar tissue into healthy organ tissue, but we didn’t know what was actually going on inside these newly revitalized ce...
Michael Fossel on telomerase therapy in cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more
Last week we heard the theoretical side of Dr. Michael Fossel’s mission to bring aging to its knees, and why his chosen point of attack was on t...
Più mosso, Maestro! An interview in the key of telomere with Dr. Michael Fossel
With three decades of experience as a professor of clinical medicine under his belt, Dr. Michael Fossel takes a fundamentally pragmatic approach to ta...
Research roundup: Untangling ApoE4, and more
It’s been known for ages that individuals with two ApoE4 alleles were virtually destined to develop Alzheimer’s, but its link with the hal...
Media roundup: Pollution, priorities and press
If you live in the southwest United States or central Europe, you may be losing a year or more of your life to air pollution. Parts of China, India an...
Research roundup: Drifters in your epigenome, and more
Epigenetic markers “drift” as we age to cause unintended gene expression changes, but you might be able to slow this via caloric restricti...
In the media: Mouse mugshots, metabolic mayhem and metformin
Is a picture worth a thousand biomarkers? MouseAGE, the AI that wants to eyeball the age of rodents, thinks so. Dr. Craig Thomspon talks cancer metabo...
In the media: Autophagy, APOE4 and amyloid alternatives
Had your curiosity piqued by our recent autophagy articles? Learn even more about this essential cellular process over at LEAF science! Human trials o...