A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed ...

IF YOU think about it, life is really just that, a mere short ride. In what appears to be a cruel joke, when the supreme maker of all things created us, He cleverly saw to it that we were human beings ...

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Scientists define the stages of life in biological, societal, and chronological terms—but none of them quite capture what ...

AI can help governments reduce the cost of policy mistakes, but it should support rather than replace accountable ...

For years, I watched the signs of aging slowly take their toll. Then one decision changed the reflection staring back at me in the mirror. The results felt so dramatic it was as if time had been ...

Can worrying about getting older actually make the body age faster? This question sounds strange at first, but new research suggests that constant fear about aging, especially fear linked to health, ...

As we age, our cells don’t just wear down—they reorganize. Researchers found that cells actively remodel a key structure called the endoplasmic reticulum, reducing protein-producing regions while ...

Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to demonstrate that nerve cells age differently. They identified both the causes of ...

His team found that aging cells remodel their ER through a process called ER-phagy, which selectively targets specific ER subdomains for breakdown. The discovery that ER-phagy is involved in aging ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these added golden years are not spent in good health. Aging is a natural part of ...

New research shows that the shingles vaccine not only reduces inflammation but may also slow the aging process. Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...