Aging

The risks of dementia, cancer and vascular disease increase with age, but the connection between the conditions is not fully understood. Now, Mayo Clinic researchers ...

While hormone therapy has been one avenue to address the symptoms associated with menopause, over the years the treatment also has raised a slew of ...

For more than twenty-five years, Christopher Evans, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic scientist, has pushed to expand gene therapy beyond its original scope of treating ...

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 empty. ...

The apolipoprotein E, or APOE, gene is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, as most people who get the disease carry the gene. ...