aging and longevity research
At least six companies have emerged to help unstick what developers say is a “bottleneck” in advancing complex genetic treatments. Editor’s note: BioPharma Dive, as part of Emerging Biotech Weekly, is taking a closer look at competitive areas of startup activity. We aim
In June 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of its International Classification of Diseases and added aging for the first time. The classification of aging as a disease paves the way for new research into novel therapeutics to
Follistatin is a protein that our body makes naturally. Your body uses it to control metabolism, grow muscle, and boost fertility. Increasing follistatin can help you put on muscle quickly and may help you burn a significant amount of body fat.
Myostatin is a protein found almost exclusively in muscles used for movement (skeletal muscles), where it is active both before and after birth. This protein typically limits muscle growth, ensuring muscles do not grow too large. The MSTN gene provides instructions for making
Aging is part of life but is getting older a requirement? Understanding why we age or what causes aging is a puzzle scientists are still attempting to solve. Hypotheses abound: is oxidative stress damaging our DNA? Is glucose to blame?
Genes can play an essential role in health — a defective gene or genes can make you sick or be fatal. Acknowledging this, scientists have been working for decades on adjusting or replacing faulty genes with healthy ones to treat,
In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock,’ which tracks a person’s biological age. A small clinical study in California has proposed for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic
In the early 1990s, most scientists did not think that aging was subject to active regulation by genes. However, exciting results from Dr. Kenyon’s lab showed that a single mutation in the daf-2 gene caused the tiny roundworm C. elegans
Chronological age is the number of years a person has been alive. In contrast, biological age refers to how old a person seems, based on several factors, like how your chromosomes have altered over time. In a study, the researchers
In this episode, Dr. Andrew Huberman is joined by Dr. David Sinclair, a tenured Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and an expert researcher in longevity. Dr. Sinclair is also the author of Lifespan: Why We Age & Why