It’s fair to say that aging and longevity are on many people’s minds, especially as they grow older. The idea of being unable to remember family members, noticing changes in your appearance and not ...

Biological age tests measure how fast your body is aging compared to your actual age. These tests rely on biomarkers tied to ...

“Breast cancer (BC) survivors may experience accelerated aging due to detrimental effects of BC and/or its treatments.” Led by first author Cong Wang and corresponding author Xiao-Ou Shu from ...

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...

The findings, published in The Lancet Digital Health, show how accelerated aging in specific organs can predict not only diseases affecting that organ, but diseases across the rest of the body as well ...

The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not. Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of childhood, the plateau of early ...

As we age, our immune system quietly loses its edge, and scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why. A protein called ...

Your lungs might be telling you something important, but you’re probably not listening. While most of us obsess over wrinkles, memory lapses, or aching joints as signs of aging, we rarely consider our ...

Share on Pinterest The human body experiences rapid changes around age 50, according to a new study. Maskot/Getty Images Past studies show that human aging doesn’t necessarily happen at the same pace ...

Infections accelerate aging by damaging cells and organs. Preventing them with vaccines, hand hygiene, masks, and clean air ...