We came to a bench where a graduate student was working on one of the key mysteries behind antiaging: How does a cell remember its former state? Borrowing from information theory, Sinclair believes in ...

Scientists created an enzyme that cleans one of the most common AGEs from human tissue, helping to turn back the clock even after the aging compounds have settled in the body.

Polyphenols and other compounds in coffee activate a protein in the human body that helps protect against stress and chronic diseases, leading to healthier aging, a new study suggests.

Your body's cells are aging right now, making you more susceptible to disease and injury that can shorten your lifespan. But what if science could reverse that decline? Researchers say they've found a ...

Aging may accelerate when long-lived immune cells lose their ability to clear damaged cells, allowing inflammatory debris to build up across the body. In mice, blocking one receptor restored this ...

The fear of aging is driving a wave of biohacking businesses promising to help restore youth and fight disease. Four Corners investigates the race to reverse the aging process.

New research reveals that cells of the same chronological age can follow dramatically different biological aging paths, ...

Cells that stop dividing do not simply disappear. Some remain active, change their surroundings and accumulate as the body ...

A few months ago, some 160 scientists across physics, biology, and medicine met in Singapore for the first ever global conference on the physics of aging, or gerophysics. It's a niche discipline whose ...

New research suggests changes in the gut microbiome could influence Alzheimer’s long before symptoms appear in the brain.

For decades, the leading explanation for why bodies age has centered on wear and tear: DNA damage piling up, oxidative stress ...