Aging

A reality check on“healthy aging.”  The real troubles - and opportunities - of a gero-nation go unheeded. The numbers are increasingly disturbing: By 2050, some 88 million Americans will be over…

We're not joking; a sense of humor helps to keep people healthy and increases their chances of at least reaching retirement age, though after the age of 70 the health benefits of humor decrease…

An international research team has gathered a database of the oldest people in the world - those who lived beyond their 110th birthday, and while searching for these 'supercentenarians' and trying to…

Don’t Shoot The Pied Piper Of Longevity Science  by Bill Sardi Greg Critser, a marvelous crafter of words and noted science writer, in his “Resveratrol: The Backlash” article at the…

University of Birmingham scientists have discovered that the gene DAF-16 plays an important part in determining the rate of aging and average lifespan of the laboratory worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C…

Eternity Soup, by Greg Critser Harmony Books, 2010 Scientific Blogging's own Greg Critser has tackled the science and business of eternal youth in his latest book. It's an engaging and excellent read…

Greg Critser started blogging here within a month after we opened the doors.  How did he hear of us?   I have no idea and neither does he but shortly after we started we were referenced by…

Congratulations to Scientific Blogging's own Greg Critser, whose latest book, Eternity Soup is reviewed in Nature: Critser's book is a brilliant exposé of the increasingly popular anti-ageing…

People in developed nations are living as much as a decade longer than their parents did as a result of staying healthy to a more advanced age, according to a new review published in Nature. The…

People who stay mentally sharp into their 80s and beyond challenge the notion that brain changes linked to mental decline and Alzheimer's disease are a normal, inevitable part of aging, say…