People age at different speeds. Two bodies born the same year can wear down at very different rates. Extra body fat may be ...

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 ...

The same chemical process that turns a baking cake golden brown is at work aging your body’s cells. Over decades, your ...

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 ...