In recent years, public health officials have warned about a rising epidemic of loneliness, with rates of loneliness reportedly doubling over the past 50 years. In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine put a specific, concerning and surprising face to the issue. Publishing in the December 18 2018… Continue reading Serious Loneliness Spans the Adult Lifespan but There Is a Silver Lining
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Improving Lifespan Predictions and the Scientific Understanding of Aging
By studying the effect of genetic variations on lifespan across the human genome — that is, the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or organism — an international group of researchers have devised a way to estimate whether a person can expect to live longer or shorter than average. The team… Continue reading Improving Lifespan Predictions and the Scientific Understanding of Aging
Living a Healthier (Not Longer) Life
Clinicians, scientists and public health professionals have extended the human lifespan to its limits, and now need to focus on a “healthspan” instead that emphasizes health over longevity, according to University of Illinois at Chicago epidemiologist S. Jay Olshansky. In an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Olshansky, professor of epidemiology… Continue reading Living a Healthier (Not Longer) Life
Some Stem Cells May Control Aging
New research has pinpointed the exact cells in the brain’s hypothalamus that influence how fast physical aging occurs. The finding, by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was made in mice and might lead to new strategies for battling age-related diseases, as well as expanding lifespan. The paper was published in Nature. The hypothalamus… Continue reading Some Stem Cells May Control Aging
How Risk Taking Changes with Age
The propensity to take risks does alter over our lifespan, but it is particularly likely to change in people up to age 30 and those older than 65. Researchers reached that conclusion in a study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in collaboration with the University of Basel, Yale University, and the… Continue reading How Risk Taking Changes with Age
Predicting Lifespan and “Healthspan”
As humans have begun to live longer it has become clear that the quality of our lives is equally as important as the duration. In the lab, a dramatic extension of lifespan isn’t difficult to achieve. In previous experiments using several types of mutated Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms (C. elegans), researchers were able to significantly extend… Continue reading Predicting Lifespan and “Healthspan”