Scientists discover how aging alters the function of cells, called mesenchymal drift, and manage to reverse this process.

Extreme heat may be silently accelerating biological aging in older adults, adding months to cells before disease appears.

The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of childhood, the plateau of early ...

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine. In a cozy apartment, an older woman sits in an armchair, raptly attuned to a scene unfolding on her ...

For decades, aging has looked like a one-way street, a slow accumulation of damage written into our cells. Now a wave of ...

Aging has traditionally been viewed as a gradual and continuous process shaped by time, genetics, and environment. However, ...

American entrepreneur Elon Musk expressed confidence that the human aging process will cease to be a problem after the discovery of its fundamental causes. The businessman announced this on January 22 ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which ...

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic ...

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According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...