Kate Reynard

A notable investigation about the inheritance of long healthy life was published this week in the journal Age and Aging. A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine [1] found that women whose mothers live more than 90 years had the 25 % expectancy to live a long time too. The presence of two long-lived parents ...

Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a unique species for the study of aging. Unlike other rodents, this animal is distinguished by the exceptional longevity and can live more than 30 years. This month, BMC Biology published two articles of scientists from the Leibniz Institute on Aging, which present transcriptomic and proteomic ...

A new article about the basic mechanisms of aging once again demonstrates the significant contribution of the gut microbiome status in this process. In the study, scientists from the McGill University increased lifespan of Drosophila males by using of a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement.​You are what you eat. Or so the...

The genetic basis of lifespan determination is poorly understood. Most research has been done on short-lived animals, and it is unclear if these insights can be transferred to long-lived mammals like humans. By comparing genes of long- and short-lived rodents, researchers from Leibniz Institute on Aging (FLI) in Jena/Germany now identi...

Secret of a long life could be revealed in telomeres of long-lived bats.​Author: Will DunhamBats are the longest-lived mammals relative to body size, and a species called the greater mouse-eared bat lives especially long. Researchers now have unlocked some of this bat's longevity secrets, with hints for fighting the effects of agi...