Rare gene mutations may explain why some people live much longer
Live Forever Club - 05-Jun-2025These changes may help people stay healthy as they grow older
Ageing Research
Fundamental ageing research used to be a slow, unexciting, area of academia, with all the big names and money looking at specific diseases. But now that people have realised that most age-related diseases have a shared cause (aging, who'd have thought it?) it's becoming big business. Private money is being invested in biotech start-ups, which is great, but there is still plenty of basic (and by that I don't mean simple) research to do to increase our understanding of the very complex products and processes of ageing.
Sometimes I prefer to call this "anti-ageing research" - because nobody is researching how to speed it up!A note on spelling - Ageing or Aging?
According to Cambridge Dictionary: UK = ageing, US = aging
Being a UK-based club, the preference is to spell it with an "e" - but as most publications use the US version (and it's quicker to type!), realistically, it is used interchangeably throughout the site.
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Ageing Research News
Metabolic fingerprint of gut microbes signals danger in critical illness
Inside Precision Medicine - 05-Jun-2025Researchers link gut metabolite imbalances to short-term mortality in critically ill patients
Necrosis, a chaotic type of cell death, might cause ageing and diseases
University College London (UCL) - 29-May-2025If we stop or slow it, we might prevent damage in the body
Osteoarthritis may result from ageing programs gone wrong
Live Forever Club - 29-May-2025Ageing activates bone-building processes in cartilage, damaging joints
Ageing Research Resources
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Longevity Summit Dublin 2025
02-Jul-2025
The aim is to explore a crucial question: What does the future of ageing look like? (Dublin, Ireland)
Fahy Protocol - Regrow the Thymus, Reverse Your Age
Greg Fahy discusses his groundbreaking work on the thymus and its impact on ageing reversal
Long-Lived Species Could Revolutionize Human Aging
Dr. Vera Gorbunova reveals the biological secrets behind nature’s longest-living species
27-Mar-2024
Measuring the hallmarks of ageing – how can you track the underlying causes of ageing?
What consumer tests are available to check your hallmarks of ageing and how they're impacting your body?
24-Jan-2024
Meet the Omes
The biology of ageing looks at way more than just the genome and microbiome - here's 20 to start with!
06-Dec-2023
Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
30-Aug-2023
Where were the UK longevity companies and researchers at Dublin summit?
Absolute numbers look good, but for the size and proximity of the venue, it could have done better
Topics covered in this page:
Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs), Ageing Research, Autophagy, Bioelectricity, Cell Biology, Circadian Rhythm, DNA, Epigenetics, Glycobiology, Human Biology, Immunosenescence, Immunotherapy, Inflammaging, Longevity Genes, Proteomics, SENS
