Can research into a rare, accelerated aging disease and "zombie cells" teach us something about the normal aging process? Did you know that a small molecule called NAD + plays a critical role in our ...

Fatigue, weight gain and increased hunger are often blamed on getting older. But experts say these common changes may ...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has a simple nervous system consisting of just 302 neurones. The human brain, with approximately 90 billion neurones, is far more complex. Nevertheless, neurons in ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive cognitive decline and widespread brain atrophy 1. One of the greatest challenges in understanding AD is that the ...

Aging is characterized by the progressive decline in genomic and system integrity and is itself a major driver of many chronic diseases 1. There are multiple mechanisms of aging, and hallmarks of ...