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Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Believes Aging May Come Down to a Cell’s Identity Crisis
It’s in the embryo that the 20,000 or so genes in the human genome start organizing to mature into the more than 200 different cell types in the body—similar...
David Sinclair’s Research Is Now Testing Whether Blindness—and Aging—Can Be Reversed
The pioneering trial—conducted by LifeBiosciences, a company Sinclair co-founded—is the first test of the idea that, at least in certain cells, aging may not be inevitable, and can be...
Robert Waldinger Knows the Secret to a Happy Life
The Harvard Study of Adult Development began in 1938 with 724 young men: 268 sophomores at Harvard and 456 boys from disadvantaged Boston neighborhoods. For nearly 90 years, researchers...
Longevity Is More Genetic than We Thought. That’s a Good Thing
In January 2026, Uri Alon, director of the Sagol Institute for Longevity Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and his colleagues made headlines with a new...
Shinya Yamanaka Made Cells Young Again. Can That Reverse Aging?
He started by trying to identify which genes were responsible for driving the development of embryonic cells. Then, he used engineered viruses that could infect cells (but no longer...
Muscle Isn’t Vanity. Gabrielle Lyon Says It’s Preventive Medicine
Lyon's 2023 book Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well argues that muscle is "the organ of longevity"—not a vanity project but a metabolic powerhouse. When you...
Andrea Maier Wants to Solve Longevity’s Evidence Problem
Dr. Andrea Maier realized a fundamental truth about herself when she was in medical school: She was fascinated by old age. As a child, she’d been awed by women...
TIME’s Longevity Leaders Are Racing to Add Good Years to Your Life
We are squarely in a longevity boom, and the field is now well established as serious science. But we are still near the beginning. Right now, there is no...
Breaking Down the Series Finale of ‘Outer Banks’
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Outer Banks Season 5.After years of treasure hunts, betrayals, shipwrecks, family feuds and increasingly improbable escapes, the Pogues finally make it home. The...
Our Approach to Drought and Wildfire Is Economically Backwards
When we think about economic infrastructure, ports and power grids loom large. However, what stewards of the land—including farmers, herders, and pastoralists—have understood for generations is that healthy land...
