When scientists transplanted the gut microbes of aged mice into young "germ-free" mice—raised to have no gut microbes of their own—the recipient mice experienced an increase in inflammation ...

The pups, some as young as eight months, were “reused” and then “euthanized” if they suffered organ dysfunction, were ...

Scientists identified a link between the disease and a toxin in the gut. Eating more fiber may help reduce your risk.

Just last summer, a group of researchers at Harvard Medical School claimed to have extended the lives of old mice by connecting them to the circulatory systems of young mice, using a macabre ...

Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, belongs to a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). It’s ...

Young adult mice with a genetic form of progressive deafness can hear again after being treated with an experimental CRISPR gene therapy that its creators hope to eventually use in humans. In an ...

The experiment involved mice born to live fast and die young, bred with a rodent version of progeria, a condition that causes premature aging. Left alone, the animals grow gray and frail and then ...

Certain gut bacteria cause blood vessels to age more quickly according to a study by the University of Zurich.

between young and old mice. And so people, then, in the aging field wondered, what if we would expose an old organism– specifically old stem cells– to a young circulation– to factors from the young ...

New research from Waseda University shows that zebra finches use their amygdala brain region to choose which older birds to ...