Aging

For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Evans, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic scientist, has pushed to expand [...]

It's a long way to Mars. And nearly all the journey is outside of Earth's semiprotective atmosphere. Even the International Space Station, 248 miles up, is [...]

Mayo researchers are leading the way in identifying new concepts for healthy aging. While drugs that remove "zombie" cells are in clinical trials, a new [...]

Clearing senescent cells from the body may prove a treatment for yet another condition, one that is both rare and currently lacking in effective therapies. [...]

Editor's Note: This is the first of three articles on fasting, or caloric restriction. The other two will focus on caloric restriction for neurologic disease [...]

Mayo Clinic scientists lead the way on research into diseases of aging and their link to stressed or damaged cells that linger and cause chaos [...]

In the years since AIDS was first described in medical research, the scientific map of that disease has changed enormously. Once it was relatively [...]

The apolipoprotein E, or APOE, gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as most [...]

Senescent cells, sometimes called zombie cells, are major contributors of aging and can contribute to symptoms ranging from bone and muscle weakness to cognitive decline [...]

The action of an immune cell called a neutrophil may contribute to tissue aging, according to a new study. As neutrophils do their job, they [...]