Biological aging

A cancer gap has emerged among Americans under 50, and women are carrying much more of it. In 2021, women in this age group were diagnosed at nearly twice the rate of men. The reasons remain unsettled. Researchers are now examining everything from diet and biological aging to environmental exposures that may begin influencing the …

A team of Cambridge scientists may have taken one of the biggest steps yet toward slowing the effects of human aging. Researchers at the Babraham Institute managed to rewind the biological age of human skin cells by around 30 years while keeping the cells fully functional. The breakthrough sounds like science fiction, but the researchers …