21+ hour, 47+ min ago   (759+ words) Frailty, the state of heightened vulnerability that emerges as biological reserves dwindle with age, has become one of the most consequential concepts in modern geriatric medicine....

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (728+ words) Type 2 diabetes has long been treated in the clinic as a single disease defined by elevated blood glucose, yet a growing body of research has argued that it is better understood as a collection of distinct disorders that converge on…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (780+ words) In the world of infectious disease, aging is almost universally a liability. As animals grow older, their immune systems typically falter, their cellular repair mechanisms decline, and their susceptibility to pathogens climbs. Humans, mice, fish, and insects all obey this…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (772+ words) There are few questions in science that grip the public imagination quite like the limits of human longevity, and a new study published in the journal Biogerontology now adds a substantial piece of evidence to one of the most contentious…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (32+ words) Bioengineer.org Subject of Research: Biology Article Title: Genetic trade-offs in fertility and longevity explain the maintenance of disease-associated alleles in humans...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (142+ words) China has unveiled the extraordinary scale of one of the world’s largest prospective studies of aging, with the publication of a cohort profile describing the Multi-city Elderly Health Examination Cohort Study, or MEHECS, in the European Journal of Epidemiology. Since…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (76+ words) Magnesium has spent most of its scientific life backstage — the unglamorous electrolyte that keeps cellular housekeeping running while genes, proteins, and metabolites take the spotlight. A new review published in the journal Aging Cell argues that this quiet reputation is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (98+ words) Brain Stimulation Fails Its Most Rigorous Aging Test: Major Pre-Registered Trial Finds No Motor-Learning Boost from tDCS in Older Adults The answer to both was no. All four groups showed robust motor sequence learning: reaction times shortened dramatically as practice…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (593+ words) Everolimus Offers Only a Modest Extra Brake on Advanced Breast Cancer After CDK4/6 Resistance For patients with estrogen receptor-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, the moment a tumor progresses on a CDK4/6 inhibitor can feel like a therapeutic cliff....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (85+ words) The race to measure biological aging has produced a problem almost as quickly as it has produced new technology: people are receiving numbers they cannot reliably interpret. DNA methylation tests promise to reveal whether someone is biologically older or younger…...