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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Optimizing the aging process isn’t a new concept for researchers. Scientists have long studied the ...

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My childhood friend and I were recently having the “I can’t believe we’re in our 50s” discussion. We reviewed our friendship timeline, reflecting on everything from our childhood and college memories ...

The most recent issue of Journal of the American Medical Association includes a landmark review highlighting innovative strategies to slow the biological aging process, an emerging approach with ...

Age is more than just one number. While neuroscientists used to think of cognitive aging as a single trendline, they now ...

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Age-related decline is not an unavoidable fate, but a problem that can be addressed with modern medicine, writes Andrew S. Brack.

A massive cell-by-cell map of aging reveals it’s a synchronized, body-wide process—and scientists may finally know where to intervene.