Broadly speaking, Belmonte says he believes “dysregulation” of these control systems is the fundamental process that underlies aging and many diseases. To rejuvenate cells, Belmonte has...
There was reason to worry. In 2016, after Peter Thiel, one of Altman’s mentors, expressed interest in possibly getting age-defeating blood transfusions, he was mocked in...
Mice live only months in the wild but can survive two to three years in the lab. Those in the latest experiment were already 124 weeks...
Most aging clocks estimate a person’s biological age based on patterns of epigenetic markers—specifically, chemical tags called methyl groups that are layered onto DNA and affect...