PubMed Central (NCBI)

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PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.

PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Since its inception in 2000, PMC has grown from comprising only two journals, PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Molecular Biology of the Cell, to an archive of articles from thousands of journals.

Today, PMC contains more than 6 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research (late 1700s to present). Content is added to the archive through.

Visit website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

See also: National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Medical research agency that supports scientific studies

PubMed Central (NCBI) News

Improving immune system in the elderly with the existing medicines

The Conversation (UK) - 13-Oct-2020

Repurposing the potential existing drugs might eliminate the risk of developing infections

Fruit juice, should we include it in our diet or not?

The Conversation - 12-Sep-2019

Anything that says "juice drink" on it isn't pure fruit juice - avoid!

Fisetin destroys senescent cells, but safe dosage not determined yet

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 26-Dec-2018

Includes table of fisetin content in range of fruits and vegetables

Can intermittent fasting make you live longer?

Popular Science - 12-Apr-2018

No evidence intermittent fasting results in more weight loss than other diets. Not enough studie...

Should we all get a health check?

Guardian - 09-Apr-2018

May just find problems that probably don’t need treatment. NHS offers a health check every five ...

How to Plan and Carry Out a Simple Self-Experiment

Fight Aging! - 12-Jan-2018

Process of setting up and running a self-experiment of candidate senolytic drugs. Optimized for ...

Evidence Against a Late Life Mortality Plateau

Fight Aging! - 23-Nov-2017

Mortality rates seen to flatten out in flies and other short-lived species. Old individuals ceas...

Will better technology solve our sleep sorrows?

TechRadar - 08-Oct-2017

The lack of sleep can contribute to a range of mental and physical illnesses, including Alzheimer...

Living Forever

Proto - 13-Jun-2017

Review of current thinking from the Massachusetts General Hospital - the largest teaching hospita...

Microsoft’s Project Hanover aiming to ‘solve’ cancer

ZDNet - 20-Sep-2016

Seeking to make precision cancer therapy available to all. Currently, volume of research require...

Crowd funding success for OncoSENS Control ALT Delete Cancer

SENS Research Foundation - 18-Sep-2016

$72,000 raised for high-throughput screening of a library of diverse drugs to find treatments for...

Men live longer when they marry younger spouses. Why don’t women?

Guardian - 31-Mar-2016

In Danish study, woman over 50 married to a man 16 years younger was 40% more likely to die by en...

Scientists create a cyborg rat that can escape a maze much faster

Futurism - 19-Feb-2016

Just gave hints to help the maze runner, didn't control it

Why rich people live longer

New York Times - 12-Feb-2016

Longevity gap between high-income and low-income Americans has been widening sharply. Life expec...

Metformin, Gamma Rays or Chocolate?

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) - 26-Dec-2015

Brian Hanley discusses the safety of metformin aging clinical trial. Median life span extension ...

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