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 ...

An international research team has uncovered new insights into healthy brain aging. The researchers found that aging leads to the accumulation of defective energy molecules in the brains of aged mice, ...

Aging is a normal process the body goes through, but not all of the symptoms that are frequently attributed to the normal aging process should be directly connected to aging — some may be associated ...

A team of Japanese researchers say they’ve identified how a set of proteins in nerve cells declines with age, a discovery ...

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 ...

Aging is a natural part of life, and most of us expect to see signs of aging in our 50s and 60s, such as wrinkles, gray hair, and slower metabolism. However, some people seem to age much faster than ...