While scientists have long known that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with biological symptoms of accelerated aging, emotional distress accounts for a significant portion of these ...

A new study found that vitamin D supplementation improved a key marker of biological aging—but it's probably too soon to rush ...

Using patient data from several banks of genomics data, researchers at UC San Diego were able to make similar predictions of aging using either mutations or epigenetic modifications. Their results ...

Shingles vaccination not only protects against the disease but may also contribute to slower biological aging in older adults ...

In modern history, aging was viewed as something we simply accepted. Getting older was framed as an unavoidable decline, a ...

Older adults vaccinated against shingles appear to experience slower biological aging, according to a new study.

In the continuing quest to find the cause of aging and a pathway to slow or even reverse it, a recent study out of the UC San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla has linked two leading theories. In ...

The researchers believe this is likely a measurement issue rather than a health risk. The vaccine creates memory T-cells to ...

The couple went on a quest to find a general theory that could explain what aging is and why and how it happens. After more than 20 years of "sustained intellectual effort"—first at Moscow State ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan and biological aging. In the study, mothers of large families, women who ...