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.
Resources
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Undoing Aging 2022 CANCELLED
26-May-2022 to 28-May-2022Focused on the cellular and molecular repair of age-related damage (Berlin)
Karen Hooper, Martin Carkett, and Jess Northend speaking about longer healthspans on London Futurists online event (FREE)
Vince Giuliano and Steve Buss discuss the body's rejuvenation processes, at this London Futurists online event
Research center focused on multidisciplinary approach to understanding and promoting successful ageing
Research center focused on research at the cellular level that will ensure a healthy old age
Cross-faculty multidisciplinary institute involving over 130 academics from across Anglia Ruskin University
Research center that conducts high quality interdisciplinary research around ageing, older people and age-related diseases
Research center focused on lifelong health and wellbeing, especially with regard to cognition
Research institute that aims to develop ways of preventing ageing-related changes in the musculoskeletal system
Research center that undertakes research which will underpin healthier dietary choices
Ageing Research Blog Posts
TruDiagnostic TruAge Biological Age Test Review
26-Jan-2022 Adrian tries out this home epigenetic test and is impressed with the level of detail in the reports
What Happened to Plain-Old Biology?!
11-Aug-2021 Branches of biology diagram showing all things bio
TruAge (TruMe) Biological Age Test Review
14-Jun-2021 How does the cheapest epigenetic age test on the market compare?
Carbiotix Gut Health Test Review
14-May-2021 Discover who is winning the battle between your good and bad bacteria
myDNAge Biological Age Test Review
12-Apr-2021 Home test based on Horvath’s epigenetic ageing clock
Recent News
Biological age of single cells measured with high precision
Medical Xpress - 10-Jan-2022
Epigenetic age of individual cells helps tracking ageing process in various tissue types
Read more...Reason reviews progress in longevity research and treatments from 2021
Fight Aging! - 31-Dec-2021
There is a phenomenal amount of work going on across the spectrum of ageing - something is going to work eventually!
Read more...MyMD Pharmaceuticals begins phase 2 trial of TNF-inhibitor in January 2022
Longevity Technology - 14-Dec-2021
Potential oral treatment to prevent sarcopenia and frailty, and extend healthy lifespan
Read more...Rockfish that lives more than 200 years unveiled genes for longevity
Scientific American - 11-Nov-2021
Insights on longer-living species could offer the targets for extending lifespan in humans
Read more...A new model enter into telomere-mediated senescence to reduce genome damage
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) - 10-Nov-2021
Telomeres repair can prevent senescence and genome instability
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