Tag Archives: lifespan

Extending life with diet or insulin has trade-offs

News: Extending Lifespan    May 22, 2010
Over the last decade or so, two of the most promising avenues of research in gerontology (the study of aging) and the search for means of extending human life have been on the effects of restricting diet and the activity of the hormone insulin. Numerous studies have shown that caloric restriction (not starvation, but a [...]
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Study confirms telomere’s role in living longer

News: Extending Lifespan    November 16, 2009
Confirmation is a vital part of the scientific process. In this case confirmation involves our knowledge of telomeres. We know that telomeres, the short strip of DNA found at the ends of chromosomes, play a big role in protecting the DNA from gene loss during the many replications within a cell. One of the 2009 [...]
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What if most people lived to 100?

Impact: Extending Lifespan    November 4, 2009
It’s more than possible. In the not very distant future, most people will live to be 100 years old. That possibility…should make people pause. First off: Is it true? Second: If true, when might it happen? Third: What does that mean, for a lot of things? Almost a third of the “impact areas” listed here [...]
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