Category: Press Releases

The Longevity Summit, a leading conference bringing together the complete ecosystem of longevity science and biotechnology, will hold its fourth annual event on December 3-4, 2024, at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California. This immersive two-day conference creates a unique peer-to-peer learning environment focused on transforming longevity research into practical medical...

Longevity Summit Dublin, the premier international event dedicated to the latest research, innovation, and collaboration in the field of longevity, is excited to announce its new dates and venue for 2025. The summit will take place from July 2-4, 2025, at the historic Trinity College Dublin in the heart of Dublin, Ireland. The Longevity Summit...

In a world first, a pig kidney preserved at subzero temperatures was successfully transported across the Atlantic Ocean multiple times, demonstrating the potential for a novel technology to greatly extend organ storage and preservation, and make long-distance organ transportation a clinical reality. Extending organ preservation time could bridge the organ supply-and-demand gap, avoid high-risk, time-critical...

The Longevity Science Foundation (LSF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research aimed at extending the healthy human lifespan, is proud to announce a grant award to researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, within the Medical Sciences Division, for the study “Metabolic Mechanisms of Ageing in the Heart -...

It might take a second renaissance bringing polymaths across science to solve aging and enhance human mental capacity to groundbreaking heights. This week’s Longevity, Computing, and Cognition Research Hackathon at MIT tackles this initiative. From 10/25 to 10/27, Ekkolápto, Augmentation Lab, and Meditation Artifacts will unite interdisciplinary minds to explore how emerging computational paradigms can...

Frontier Bio Corporation has announced a groundbreaking achievement in lab-grown lung tissue. By combining 3D bioprinting with the ability of stem cells to self-assemble, mimicking natural organ development, the California-based biotech company has created complex microscale lung tissue. This innovation paves the way for advancements in treating respiratory diseases and organ transplantation. Animal testing is...