2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (243+ words) Retro Biosciences, the longevity startup backed by Open AI CEO Sam Altman, has raised more money at a $1. 8 billion valuation, it announced Friday." Retro has a big mission: Add 10 healthy years to the human lifespan. It is seeking to do…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (177+ words) Listeners also will hear Allison's interview with Joe Betts-La Croix, CEO of the Sam Altman-backed longevity company Retro Biosciences. Retro is preparing for its first clinical data readout and examining just how much impact AI can have in drug development....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1886+ words) Torie Bosch: Twenty-five years ago, before peptides and biohackers were mainstream conversation, there were the blue zones: communities isolated geographically where residents reportedly lived far longer than average. Since then, the concept of the blue zone has exploded, influencing today's…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (152+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (653+ words) By Shelley Wood and Eric J. Topol When French geneticist Jean-Francois Deleuze first launched the AGENOMICS study in 2022, he hoped to identify genetic patterns among 1, 200 French citizens who'd lived more than 100 years and to compare those to centenarians hailing from one…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (861+ words) For researchers studying aging " and thinking about how to extend our lives " a key question has been how much our genes shape our lifespans. Past studies have arrived at a range of answers. Many researchers had coalesced around an estimate…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago  (784+ words) It's hard to miss the buzz around regenerative medicine. Clinics tout "miracle injections" and "next generation cell therapies" across websites, glossy advertisements, and social media, promising to heal joints, reverse arthritis, regrow cartilage, and even restore youth. For patients in…...

6+ mon, 4+ day ago  (380+ words) We're living in the age of the anti-aging gold rush. Biohackers are fasting and cold-plunging. They're injecting themselves with peptides and tracking every heartbeat in the hopes of extending lifespan by months, if not years. And for good reason. Once-impressive…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (153+ words) Knoepfler writes STAT's Lab Dish column and is professor of cell biology and human anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. If you hope to live well past the century mark and stay generally healthy in the process, you're not…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (487+ words) Good morning. The U. K. will ban the sale of energy drinks to people under age 16, The New York Times reported yesterday. STAT's Sarah Todd wrote earlier this year about'how popular these drinks are among teens, and how new branding strategies have…...