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NIA/NIH Entering Into Anti-Aging Research

New Way To Tackle Aging

NIA researchers are working to decipher how aging happens on a cellular level in hopes to develop therapies based on their findings and are optimistic about 2 treatments for aging in the pipeline. Researchers are trying to figure out how to manipulate the aging process in hopes to delay age related disease such as Alzheimer’s, …

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Senolytics Improve Physical Function And Increase Lifespan

Senolytics Improve Physical Function And Increase Lifespan

Typically physical function declines with age, portending disability, increased health expenditures, and mortality. With age cellular senescence leads to tissue dysfunction and may contribute to the consequences of aging, whether it directly drives age related pathology and can be used as a therapeutic target remains unclear. In young mice transplanting small amount of senescent cells …

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New Way To Tackle Aging

New Way To Tackle Aging

A new anti-aging therapeutic in the clinical pipeline has the potential to disrupt franchises. The treatment is currently being developed by 4 companies, analysts believe the first market ready produce may be available in the near future. Senolytics are the new therapeutic treatment being developed and making its way to dive into the waters of …

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