Sebastian Aguiar, geroscientist and Venture Fellow at Apollo Ventures, delivers the Lord Florey Lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford in November 2018. H...
Spermidine fuels the self-eating machine
Introducing spermidine Present in all mammalian cells, polyamines are positively charged ions that are vital for cellular growth, survival, and divisi...
Pet dogs on rapamycin are pictures of health
In the lab, rapamycin is a star geroprotector. In addition to boosting lifespan even when used in late life, it’s also been found specifically t...
Metformin: Multipurpose marvel, or medical misfire?
Much rests on metformin’s shoulders: as the first drug to begin clinical trials for preventing multiple age-related diseases, it could soon become the...
Rapamycin: An impressive geroprotector with a few potential flaws
If any drug has performed consistently and unequivocally well in anti-aging trials, it’s rapamycin. Dr. Matt Kaeberlein’s Dog Aging Project is among t...
Best friends forever: Matt Kaeberlein on helping dogs live longer
Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, an aging researcher and professor at the University of Washington, is the director of the Dog Aging Project. This two part progra...