Fourscore years and … how many more? Why greater longevity is a false challenge

In 10 years, a quarter of the British population will be over 65. Yet it’s not lifespan but healthspan we should be trying to improve.

The Secret of Longevity

In spite of the fact that death is inevitable, man has arrived at the stage where he is devoting considerable time and energy to postponing this change as long as possible. Death still remains a mystery from which the individual instinctively shrinks.

What’s next for the business of longevity?

DealBook spoke with the Harvard researcher and biotech founder David Sinclair about the opportunities and challenges of hacking the human lifespan.

Ageing can be cured—and, in part, it soon will be

That is Andrew Steele’s thesis in “Ageless”.

AI-enabled doctors will specialise in longevity medicine

Although advances in medicine have reduced mortality and extended lifespan, these advances have not increased healthspan.

Can You Fight Aging? Scientists Are Testing Drugs to Help

A magic pill that boosts life expectancy to 150 years isn’t likely, but an increase in the average lifespan for men and women is conceivable.

Is longevity more than a billionaire’s pipe-dream?

Our podcast on the science and technology making the news. Silicon Valley billionaires have spent years looking for ways to live longer. In funding real scientific work to understand how bodies age, those wild ambitions could end up benefiting everyone.

Is there any truth to anti-aging schemes?

Bill Faloon has pursued immortality for decades. Now he's got lots of company. What does science have to say?

Marriage provides health benefits – and here’s why

Married men and married women live, on average, two years longer than their unmarried counterparts. One reason for this longevity benefit is the influence of marital partners on healthy behaviors.

No more ‘playing God’: How the longevity field is trying to recast its work as serious science

“Why is it in popular culture, if you want to live forever, you are evil and you want to kill babies on the side?” says Martin Borch Jensen.

Researchers May Have Found a Way to Slow Human Aging

Anew study brings scientists closer to an elusive goal: figuring out how to outsmart humans’ biological clocks to slow the aging process and keep people healthier, longer.

Scientists are waging a war against human aging. But what happens next?

We all grow old. We all die. For Aubrey de Grey, a biogerontologist and chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation, accepting these truths is, well, not good enough. He decided in his late twenties (he’s currently 54) that he “wanted to make a difference to humanity” and that battling age was the best way to do it. His life’s work is now a struggle against physics and biology, the twin collaborators in bodily decay.

Scientists Have Reached a Key Milestone in Learning How to Reverse Aging

Scientists studying aging have debated what drives the process of senescence in cells—and primarily focused on mutations in DNA that can, over time, mess up a cell’s normal operations and trigger the process of cell death. But that theory wasn’t supported by the fact that older people’s cells often were not riddled with mutations, and that animals or people harboring a higher burden of mutated cells don’t seem to age prematurely.

The Anti-Aging Pill Scientists Want to Test in Humans

A group of scientists wants to run human trials to see if a diabetes medication could also reduce age-related diseases.

The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers

In the field of anti-aging and longevity research, self-experiments are all the rage. Valter Longo, director of the University of Southern California Longevity Institute, undertakes multiday fasts.

We helped track 77 species for up to 60 years to try to reveal the secrets of long life. And some don’t seem to age at all

Ever wondered about the secret to a long life? Perhaps understanding the lifespans of other animals with backbones (or “vertebrates”) might help us unlock this mystery.