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At the turn of the 20th Century, one could expect to live until 47 in the U.S. Now, medical advancements, like vaccines and antibiotics, and public health initiatives have increased life ...
Hone Health unveils the logic behind the latest longevity trend: social wellness clubs.
This leads to new approaches in understanding causes of exceptional human longevity. As for the future of human longevity, biodemographic studies found that evolution of human lifespan had two very distinct stages – the initial stage of mortality decline at younger ages is now replaced by a new trend of preferential improvement of the oldest ...
Human Longevity, Inc. is a San Diego–based venture launched by Craig Venter, Robert Hariri and Peter Diamandis in 2013. Its goal is to build the world's most comprehensive database on human genotypes and phenotypes, and then subject it to machine learning so that it can help develop new ways to fight diseases associated with aging . [ 1 ]
Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit of around 125 years. [1]
Former President Jimmy Carter recently died in his home in Plains, Ga., at the age of 100. As the 39th president of the United States, he held the distinction as the nation’s longest-living ...
The Longevity Project is a 2011 book on the social and psychological characteristics associated with long human longevity. Written by Howard S. Friedman and Leslie R. Martin, the book is based on a 20-year study extending the 60 years of Lewis Terman 's Genetic Studies of Genius research.
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging [1] is an independent biomedical research institute that researches aging and age-related disease. [2] The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the healthy years of life.