Morgan Levine

Founding Principal Investigator, Altos Labs

Morgan Levine was previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the department of Pathology at Yale University where she ran the Laboratory for Aging in Living Systems. In 2022, she was recruited to join Altos Labs as a Founding Principal Investigator at the San Diego Institute of Science. She currently leads a research group at Altos Labs working at the intersection of bioinformatics, cellular biology, complex systems, and biostatistics with the overall goal of understanding the molecular trajectories aging cells, tissues, and organisms take through time.

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Devil’s Advocate

I study longevity. Here’s the code science needs to crack.

Age expert Dr. Morgan Levine explains why living to 100 is the wrong goal.

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How to eat if you want to age slowly

Former Yale professor Dr. Morgan Levine shares 3 ways to change your diet to extend your life.

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Explain It Like I’m Smart

The science of super longevity

Science can’t stop aging, but it may be able to slow our epigenetic clocks.

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The Big Think Interview

Discover your “true age” — and how to tweak it

Your chronological age and your biological age aren’t the same thing. This ex-Yale professor explains how to tell the difference.

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