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From the Anti-Aging Blog Daily Mail: Have scientists discovered the elixir of youth? Hormone 'extends lifespan by 40%, protecting t...

© Pichi Chuang / Reuters RT: Key to longevity? Blocking over 200 genes boosts lifespan by 60%, study reveals Once a bucket of genes ...

The Next Big Future : Currently existing longevity treatments are feasible but expensive and difficult to access If you want to do some...

Could We Soon Find Out EXACTLY How Long We’ll Live? Scientists Accurately Work Out Lifespan Of Worms By Analysing Their Cells -- Daily M...

The Age Man Suit, which has ear-protectors that stifle hearing and a yellow visor that blurs eyesight. Suit Lets Medical Students Experience...

Old bees collect nectar and pollen. Most bees start doing this job when they are 3-4 weeks old, and after that they age very quickly. Their ...

Small bowel duodenum with amyloid deposition (credit: Michael Feldman/Wikimedia Commons) What’s Killing Supercentenarians? Amyloidosis, Sugg...

Naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber). (Credit: © belizar / Fotolia) Long-Lived Rodents Have High Levels of Brain-Protecting Factor -- Scie...

Researchers have identified key genes that switch off with aging, highlighting them as potential targets for anti-aging therapies. (Credit: ...

You Want To Live To 1,000? Start Making Friends -- The Guardian Loneliness is the worst enemy for the health of old people. This week, to a ...

Itskov, a 31-year-old media entrepreneur, says that he aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years. He says his techn...

Photo : Maxwell Jones CBS 2 Seen At 11: Could The Next Generation Live To Be 150? -- CBS 2 New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — People in the Tr...

The Family Portraits That Age You... In A Split-Second -- Daily Mail * Photographer's 20-year project puts together series of amazing...

Scientists say a patch of ancient seagrass in the Mediterranean is up to 200,000 years old Photo: Getty Images 'Oldest Living Thing On E...

Researchers have discovered a new mechanism controlling aging in white blood cells. The research opens up the possibility of temporarily rev...

Bill Andrews. Photograph by John B. Carnett, illustration by Alberto Seveso The Man Who Would Stop Time -- PopSci Bill Andrews has spent two...

Photo: This rare picture of a Boer war prisoner snapped on the remote island of St Helena, has shed light on one of the planets oldest livi...

Middle-aged and elderly people exercise during “Respect for the Aged Day” in Tokyo in 2005. Japan’s population is aging particularly quickly...

Memory Boost For Aging Adults: Take A Walk -- Live Science Forget the brain puzzles, mild exercise such as walking can boost brain volume an...

From The Independent: The reason women live longer than men – and why the final act of sex discrimination favours females over males – may a...