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Longevity Research
An introduction to "The Engine of Progress" from Jason Crawford, founder of the Roots of Progress Institute.
From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Living longer is only half the equation. Here’s how to stay healthier for more of those years.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Other plans for the tech: organ banking and deep space travel.
"The promise of the Human Genome Project has finally arrived."
“Having more stem cell activity is good for regeneration, but too much of a good thing over time can have less favorable consequences.”
In a world of distractions, several remarkable companies show why focus is the ultimate strategy for endurance.
Kurzweil predicts that AI will combine with biotechnology to defeat degenerative diseases this decade. Then things will get really interesting.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it's time to overthrow that idea.
Joe Betts-LaCroix — co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences — talks to Big Think about invention, authenticity, and Sam Altman’s “art of the startup.”
A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there's a good chance you have too much insulin.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
A secret to a long, healthy life may lie in the diversity of gut viruses, which can supercharge bacterial metabolism and resist disease.
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.
A food fight may finally be put to rest.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
"We are what our bodies do with what we eat."
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
While Y chromosome loss was first observed in 1963, it was not until 2014 that researchers found the link to a shorter life span.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
