"By keeping people biologically younger, we can enjoy a longer health span, a longer period of healthy life where we're active, where we're happy, where we can engage in our hobbies, and play with our grandkids and great grandkids."

"This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease."

“Over the last 10 or 15 years, scientists have really started to understand the fundamental underlying biology of the aging process. And they broke this down into 12 hallmarks of aging.”

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Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island's pest population go extinct.

The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.

We got lucky with our evolutionary history.

The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.

Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.

Your old-fashioned chronological age is just a number. Your biological age can tell you how healthy you really are.

An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.

An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.

Altos Labs, a new biotech firm with $3 billion in funding, has announced plans to combat aging. But what does that mean for human life span, exactly?

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

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