How old are you, really? People are flocking to so-called longevity clinics and buying tests online to find out their “biological age”—a metric that some scientists say could reveal how healthy a ...

Using patient data from several banks of genomics data, researchers at UC San Diego were able to make similar predictions of aging using either mutations or epigenetic modifications. Their results ...

Researchers have uncovered blood-based markers linked with healthy and rapid aging, allowing them to predict a person's biological age -- how fast a person's cells and organs age regardless of their ...

Women between ages 24-38 having 2-3 kids are likely to live longer while having many children or none may speed up cellular ...

In the continuing quest to find the cause of aging and a pathway to slow or even reverse it, a recent study out of the UC San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla has linked two leading theories. In ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...

Year Study In A Nutshell Finnish researchers tracked nearly 15,000 women for 45 years and found those with about seven ...

The diet you have doesn’t just affect your waistline—it could also be influencing how fast your body ages. Recent research has uncovered a striking connection between diet quality and biological aging ...

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. In thinking about the mechanisms of aging – we ...

You officially have an excuse to pour that third cup of coffee that you’ve been internally debating. New research connects ...