aging and longevity research
“Some animals exhibit a remarkable lack of aging, prompting the question: can humans achieve the same? The pursuit of immortality hinges on how we define it. It remains a distant fantasy if we envision immortality as an eternal, indestructible existence
Presidents William J. Clinton and George W. Bush appointed panels to investigate, report, and make recommendations on ethical practices for research in several areas of biology and medicine, including stem cells. Both the Clinton Administration’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission and
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 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
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
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery and others point to how we might one day significantly extend youthful