Your gut and brain are connected through millions of signals
Live Forever Club - 07-Oct-2025Healthy microbes can lift mood, sharpen memory, and protect against disease
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
Aubrey de grey calls for a global “war on aging” to extend human lifespan
Freethink - 01-Oct-2025De Grey urges urgent, COVID-level action to tackle aging as humanity’s biggest disease
Velcro-inspired therapy shows broad success against cancer
Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 26-Sep-2025New GlyTR protein directs T cells to destroy diverse tumours while sparing healthy cells
Study of 117-year-old reveals clues to healthy ageing
The Guardian - 24-Sep-2025Maria Branyas’s biology shows how genetics and lifestyle protect against age-related disease
Ageing Research Resources
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Eureka Conference 2025 *POSTPONED*
10-Oct-2025
Conference organised by Milutin Stanisavljević Miles (Stuttgart, Germany)
Estonia’s biobank: Is this the first large-scale personalized medicine initiative?
Podcast from Beyond Biotech-Estonia’s biobank: A pioneer in large-scale personalized medicine?
Targeting inflammation: A revolution in disease treatment
Podcast from Beyond Biotech- Targeting inflammation: Transforming disease treatment
InflaRx takes on inflammation with first-in-class C5a/C5aR signaling pathway strategy
Podcast from Beyond Biotech-InflaRx Tackles Inflammation via First-of-its-Kind C5a/C5aR Pathway Strategy
Decoding Ageing
11-Oct-2025
Carina Kern delves into the science of ageing at the Royal Institution (London + livestream)
How the Gut Influences Health and Longevity
Longevity Roadmap Podcast- Scientists from the University of Illinois explore the true science behind the gut microbiome
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, Biochemistry, Bioelectricity, Cell Biology, Circadian Rhythm, DNA, Epigenetics, Glycobiology, Human Biology, Immunosenescence, Immunotherapy, Inflammaging, Longevity Genes, Proteomics, SENS
