We propose a new theory for aging based on dynamical systems and provide a data-driven computational method to quantify the changes at the cellular level. We use ergodic theory to decompose the ...

While much is mysterious about the aging process, change over time remains its cornerstone. The biological shifts that accompany aging seemingly occur in many cells in the body. The problem is, we ...

From a biological perspective, aging is the result of the gradual accumulation of various senescent cells and cell damage over time. This results in a gradual loss of physical and mental ability, an ...

As we age with each passing year, we become more susceptible to chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, and dementia. Scientists have long focused on fighting these conditions one at a time.

Geroscience shifts the medical focus from treating individual diseases to targeting the fundamental biological drivers of aging. Cellular senescence involves aging cells that cease division but ...

A new study reveals that obesity accelerates brain aging by locking a vital memory-regulating molecular pathway called K63.

The World Health Organization describes wellness as not merely the absence of disease, but rather a state that transcends the absence of disease and approaches optimum psychological, physical, ...

Geneticist Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising frontiers of aging research. Aging is a process that affects us all. But how ...

Discovering the fountain of youth is an age-old pursuit (pun not intended). One of the latest clock-reversing experiments causing a buzz is a technique called therapeutic plasma exchange, a procedure ...

これまでの研究では、摂取カロリーを制限することが老化防止につながることが示唆されています。ところが、アメリカ・ミシガン大学の研究チームが行った実験では、カロリー制限ではなく単に「空腹を感じること」そのものが老化プロセスを遅らせる ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Aging brings unavoidable changes to the body — from graying hair or baldness to more serious conditions such as osteoarthritis, cataracts, diabetes and dementia. Those issues, which ...