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A Curious Midlife Crisis for a Tech Entrepreneur
For a time, he lived on a 20-acre estate in Bedford, N.Y., overseen by a butler whom he paid $50,000 a year, and he hosted grand parties for 60 guests or more. They swam in his pool, waged paintball wars in the woods and played padel tennis on his private court.
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The Math That Shows Humans Could Live Ten Times Longer
A new model shows that evolution has programmed us to die—and that reprogramming isn’t off the table.
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Are Limited Lifespans An Evolutionary Adaptation?
Since the time of Darwin, evolutionary biologists have wondered why the lifespans of different species vary so significantly. A new model now suggests that the life expectancy of any given species is a function of evolutionary pressures — a conclusion that hints at the potential for powerful anti-aging interventions in humans.
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Sell a disease to sell a drug
The FDA finally cracks down on a case of off-label drug promotion.
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A Point of View: How time passes differently as you get older
Growing old changes people's perceptions of the past and the future, writes AL Kennedy.
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Can We Live Forever?
Jeanne Calment, who died at 122 years of age, lived longer than anyone else in recorded history. She wasn't a health nut either. In fact, she smoked cigarettes for nearly 100 years and ate 2 pounds of chocolate every week. Can we all be like Jeanne Calment? Is it even possible to live longer at all? What about forever? What would this mean for life as we know it?
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Instead of Playing Golf, the World’s Elderly Are Staging Heists and Robbing Banks
Loneliness and poverty are two factors blamed for increased criminal activity among senior citizens
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Aubrey de Grey: Can Aging Be Cured?
Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Aubrey de Grey is the chief science officer and co-founder of the SENS Research Foundation. He argues that aging can be "cured" if it's approached as an "engineering problem." His plan calls for identifying the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each— forestalling disease and prolonging healthy life.
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92-year-old female WWII vet flies again
Joy Lofthouse, 92, used to ferry aircraft over Britain during World War II. She recently got a chance to fly in a Spitfire fighter again.
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It's old blood, not old bones, that makes fracture healing difficult among the elderly
Why do vampires from Dracula to Angel seem to crave the blood of the young and beautiful? The undead may be onto something. Young blood, it seems, has special healing properties that have been lost in older blood. A recent finding by scientists from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Duke University challenges long-held ideas about why our bones have a harder time healing as we age. Their research discovered that old mouse bones mend like youthful bones do when they're exposed to...
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16 years of selfies
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You Will Not Get To Retire: How Old Age Became Unaffordable And Unhealthy, And How We Can Fix It
The days of retiring peacefully and financially secure are close to being over. Get ready for a lot more seniors in the work force—which has the potential to be both a problem and an opportunity.
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Scientists have identified a drug that rejuvenates aging muscle and brain tissue
Scientists have identified a drug that simultaneously makes ageing muscle and brain tissue in mice act young again. The research is in its very early stages, but this could represent the first step towards a treatment that restores youth
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100 Years of Beauty: Aging
If you had a crystal ball and could gaze into the future, how would you feel seeing the love of your life as a 90-year-old? Cut offered a young couple about to say their vows the unique chance to do just that by aging them over 60 years with incredibly life-like makeup and prosthetics. We dare you not to tear up as they fall in love again and again.
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Trounced by a brain-training octogenarian
Experts debate the value of brain games, but Adam Shaw was surprised to be beaten at a simple arithmetic test by a woman double his age.
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The Secret to Aging May Lie in How Our DNA Is Packaged
Researchers say it may be possible to slow and even reverse aging by keeping DNA more stably packed together in our cells. In a breakthrough discovery, scientists report that they have found the key to keeping cells young. In a study published Thursday in Science, an international team, led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte at the Salk Institute, studied the gene responsible for an accelerated aging disease known as Werner syndrome, or adult progeria, in which patients show signs of osteoporosis..
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Microsoft Will Guess How Old You Are From a Single Photo
Head over to Microsoft’s how-old.net, upload a photo of yourself, and the site will spit out a prediction for how old you are—as well as your gender. Did it guess right? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun.
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Breakthrough in DNA 'spool' modification affects aging and longevity
Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode, is extensively used as a model organism for research.Research on a modified protein around which DNA is wrapped sheds light on how gene regulation is linked to aging and longevity in nematodes, fruit flies and possibly humans.
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Japanese population falls to 15-year low
Japan’s population has shrunk for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, the government said. More than one in four people are now 65 or older. The population dropped by 0.17%, or 215,000 people, to 127,083,000 as of 1 October last year, according to the data released on Friday. The figure includes long-staying foreigners.
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Japan’s Prisons Are Turning Into Nursing Homes
Most prisons spend a lot of time and effort keeping inmates from escaping. In Japan, the greater challenge is persuading convicts to leave. Among developed economies, Japan has one of the highest proportions of elderly prisoners. Crimes committed by senior citizens have quadrupled over the past two decades. Today, almost one in five convicts is over 60.
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