The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers ...

Geroscience examines the underlying biology of aging to delay chronic diseases and extend the healthy years of human life.

Life runs on information. In living systems, that information takes two main forms: the genome and the epigenome. The genome stays mostly stable. The epigenome, however, constantly shifts, shaped by ...

Geneticist Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising ...

Animal studies say rapamycin can slow aging – but does it work in humans? A new review finds the evidence for the off-label, low-dose use of the drug in healthy adults is thin, inconsistent, and far ...

June 30, 2025 -- Inflammation, long considered a hallmark of aging, may not be a universal human experience, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The ...

A multi-institutional team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has constructed a proteomic atlas of human aging across 13 organs, revealing tissue-specific aging clocks, transcriptome-proteome ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. For most people, ...

The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

The Beebe Healthcare hospital in Sussex County, Delaware. A feasibility study says no single health care system in the county — Beebe Healthcare, Bayhealth or TidalHealth — has enough resources on its ...