Success from XPRIZE Healthspan would profoundly change our approach to aging and positively affect quality-of-life and healthcare costs. Working across all sectors, we can democratize health and create a future where aging is full of potential. Watch the Video here…
One promising technique to combat aging is reducing inflammation. Many diseases of old age are associated with chronic, low-level inflammation in the brain, organs, joints, and circulatory system — sometimes called “inflammageing.” Read more in Freethink Have scientists found a…
As we enter our fifties, if we get “it” right, we gain access to a suite of legitimate superpowers. Over the course of that decade, there are fundamental shifts in how the brain processes information. In simple terms, our ego…
Today’s healthcare industry is built on scarcity. There are not enough physicians, hospital beds, medical devices, or drugs to go around, so these things are expensive and a pain to get (you know. As the population grows and ages, and…
With modern healthcare and improvements in sanitation, people are living longer. Meanwhile, broader access to reliable birth control means many people are having fewer children. This is leading to a higher proportion of people in older age groups. Read more…
The startup, Elevian, which is based in San Francisco, says it intends to explore whether daily injections of a protein called GDF11 can promote “the body’s ability to restore itself” The company builds on research findings several years ago that if…
For companies, investing in worker skills makes sense too – it promotes flexibility and creativity, problem-solving, teamwork and an increased sense of agency among staff, making them happier and more productive. Read more in weforum Lifelong learning helps people, governments…
Today, we target individual age-related diseases when they spring up. But this study could help us develop a therapy to attack aging itself, and perhaps even target it before it begins taking shape. But such a therapy is at least…
Elizabeth Parrish, the 44-year-old CEO of a biotechnology startup called BioViva, says she underwent a gene therapy which develop treatments for ravages of old age like Alzheimer’s and muscle loss learn more in technology review A gene therapy to reverse…
Europe’s population is ageing fast, and its younger generations are increasingly mobile. Both factors combine to explain the very uneven pattern on this map, showing in which regions the population is shrinking and where it is increasing learn more in…
