A new study reveals a connection between early life trauma and adult brain aging. Adults reporting severe childhood stress ...

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 ...

Researchers from Brown University and the University of Rochester will lead a multi-institution project to test whether reducing DNA-triggered inflammation can help older adults stay healthier for ...

While chronological age is easily measured, it fails to capture the complex biological processes that determine the rate of aging. A new proteomic aging clock may predict biological age, mortality ...

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 ...