Al Fin Longevity

One of the more tragic aspects of human existence is the common loss of the brain's mental powers, just when a person has experienced e...

Johns Hopkins researchers are implanting electronic "pacemaker" devices in the brain fornix -- the nerve input to the hippocam...

Swedish experts who tracked more than a million teenage boys for 24 years found those with low muscle strength - weaker leg and arm muscles ...

A recent collaboration between researchers in Toronto and researchers in Harbin, China, has uncovered the ability to rejuvenate adult mesenc...

Biologists have known for several decades that putting mice on a starvation diet leads the mice to live longer -- although not necessarily h...

Rather than fighting a rear-guard action against advancing dementia, some researchers are taking an offensive approach -- a "procogniti...

Each person feels his own sense of urgency -- varying with age and state of health -- regarding his own lifespan, and his ability to live o...

In " Steps Toward the Mastery of DNA Based Life " we looked at amazing developments in manipulating DNA transcription. Today we ...

The more we learn about the mechanisms of life, the more we discover there is yet to be learned. Results from the " Encode Project ...

Synthetic biologists are hard at work designing ways for microbes to produce new drugs, fuels, high value chemicals, and other important pro...

We may dream of discovering a "fountain of youth," a magic bullet treatment to achieve immortality with just a single elixir, frui...

[Anthony] Atala currently heads up more than 300 researchers in the Wake Forest University lab who are working on growing more than 30 diffe...

Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have, for the first time, identified a single gene that simultaneously controls inflammation, accele...

We usually think of stem cell therapy in terms of replacing damaged cells or tissues with stem cells, which can differentiate and become the...

This treatment worked not only in cancer cells grown in a lab dish, but also in mice with tumors. When treated with a one-two punch of erlot...

Cells make decisions in fluctuating environments using inherently noisy biochemical mechanisms. Such effects create considerable, unpredicta...

A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mic...

A study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that the compound epothilone D (EpoD) is effective in preventing further ne...