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Scientists from the Longevity Research Institute (LRI), which was formed by the merger of SENS Research Foundation and Lifespan.io, have achieved expression of an essential mitochondrial gene in the nucleus and proper functioning of the protein. This could pave the way for curing diseases caused by mitochondrial mutations [1]. The fragile mitochondrial DNA The prevailing...

I first met Dr. Mehmood Khan in 2022 at the inaugural Longevity Summit Dublin, where organizers Aubrey de Grey and Martin O’Dea made a bold decision to include policy and advocacy discussions alongside the traditional focus on longevity research. Like many others in the audience, I was captivated by the forceful, engaging, and compelling one-man...

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Rozalyn Anderson is studying one of the oldest-known and yet most powerful anti-aging interventions: caloric restriction (CR). Back in 1935, CR helped launch the entire longevity field when a pioneering study by Clive McCay and his colleagues at Cornell University demonstrated that CR without malnutrition significantly extends the lifespan...

Back in 2006, a website called “The Death Clock” appeared on the internet, with a promise to answer one of life’s greatest questions: “When will I die?” Since then, over 60 million people have used the site, which gives a somewhat grim countdown to the day they’ll meet their demise, or does it? Far from...

A new study has suggested that radical life extension is all but impossible in this century [1], and it has made waves among people interested in living longer. Out of steam? A paper titled “Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century” was destined to ignite controversy in the longevity community. Published...

Anxious about being late and distrustful of LA’s afternoon traffic, I got to my destination quite a few minutes early and found myself in a quiet middle-class neighborhood. The house I was looking for did stand out from the rest but rather modestly so. A week earlier, at a longevity-related event in the Bay Area,...