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Wellington, FL, October 9, 2023—On October 3, 2023, the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation released its historic Dublin Longevity Declaration, a groundbreaking document addressing one of humanity’s most pressing needs: extending healthy longevity for all humankind....

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the world’s largest institute dedicated to regenerative medicine, announced its approval of a new program called ReMIND at the September Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC) meeting that will eventually...

Scientific Leaders Issue global “Dublin Longevity Declaration” Consensus Recommendation to Immediately Expand Research on Extending Healthy Human Lifespans SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 3, 2023—The Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF) welcomes the publication...

by CardioVascular Learning Network Under a new $26.3 million federal contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Stanford University aims to bioprint a fully functioning human heart and implant it...

OPINION By Edward Hudgins There are over 200 congressional caucuses sharing economic, ideological, and every imaginable interest. Some have only a few members. But the new bipartisan Longevity Science Caucus, co-founded by Congressmen Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Paul...

By Michael Irving - New Atlas Scientists at Stanford Medicine have tested a new potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The therapy involves transplanting blood stem cells from healthy mice into those with the disease, which helps replace defective neural...

San Francisco, CA, September 28, 2023 — The Healthspan Action Coalition commemorates International Longevity Day, October 1 and Longevity Month, October, as a day of activism promoting healthy aging through a live rally and walk from San Francisco’s Ferry Building to...

By inside Precision Medicine A new method of genome manipulation can rapidly engineer RNA viruses through precise cleavage and repair, with potential applications for antiviral therapeutics, vaccines, and screening of mutations. The new recombinant technology enables...

By St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Scientists at St. Jude found that a subset of CD8+ T cells in the brain lessens the activation of microglia and limits disease pathology in a model of Alzheimer’s disease. As many as 5.8 million Americans are currently living...

By Lizzy Lawrence - Stat The artificial womb, a device aiming to save infants born way too soon, is inching closer to being tested in humans. The technology is close enough to reality that the Food and Drug Administration has decided to convene a two-day panel...

By Stanford University School of Engineering - SciTech Daily When an injury occurs in many organisms, a whole-body response is triggered, possibly aiding in healing and regeneration; this is seen in mice, axolotls, zebrafish, and planarian worms. In planarians,...

By Kelley Luckstein - Mayo Clinic  ROCHESTER, Minn. — Survival outcomes using chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) continue to be impressive for patients with some blood cancers. “Five years ago, the survival rate for people with blood cancers...

Noelle Alviz-Gransee - Des Moines Register Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued two businesses and their owners for allegedly selling fraudulent stem cell therapy treatments to more than 250 Iowans. The lawsuit filed against Biologics Health LLC, Summit Partners...

By Taylor Mixides - Drug Target Review Scientists at Stanford University have engineered a biomolecule that can specifically remove mucins from cancer cells. This breakthrough could have a significant impact on future cancer therapies. Cancer cells can elude the...

By Lynda De Widt - Mayo Clinic Growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Zubair had high ambitions, including dreams of becoming an astronaut. Though he has not taken flight, his work has – literally. In 2017, several samples of donated stem cells from Dr. Zubair's lab were on...

By NASA NASA and its international partners approved the crew for Axiom Space’s third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than January 2024. Axiom Space’s chief astronaut...

By Clay Risen and Amanda Holpuch - The New York Times Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the project that cloned a mammal for the first time, Dolly the sheep, shocking scientists who had thought that such a procedure was impossible, died on Sunday. He was 79....

by Live Science Scientists have transformed cancer cells into healthy muscle tissue in the lab using CRISPR gene-editing technology — and they hope new cancer treatments can be built on the back of this experiment. In a study published Aug. 28 in the journal PNAS,...