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Amid his expensive efforts to live forever, biohacker Bryan Johnson is now comparing something really weird with his 19-year-old son.
Health & Medicine

You’ll Never Guess What That Millionaire Biohacker Is Measuring on His Teenage Son

By Noor Al-Sibai

The team behind a promising new menopause treatment says they want to empower women to choose when — or even if — they go through menopause. 
Studies

Scientists Working on Drug to Indefinitely Delay Menopause

By Noor Al-Sibai

A week after setting a world record for being the oldest person to skydive, a Chicago woman died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 104.
Developments

104-Year-Old Dies Days After Skydiving From Airplane

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Brain

The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.
Developments

Eccentric Wealthy Guy Spends $2 Million Per Year Staving Off Aging

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vaccine Successfully Stalls Elements of Aging in Mice
Studies

Vaccine Successfully Stalls Elements of Aging in Mice

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death
RX and Medicine

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

New Statesman makes the case that a handful of ventures are actually starting to hone in on tech that could provide significant life extension.
Developments

Researcher Predicts Anti-Aging Drug “by the Time It’s Relevant for Me”

By Jon Christian

Aubrey de Grey, a prominent scientist trying to expand the human lifespan, has been accused by multiple women of a disturbing pattern of sexual harassment.
Prosthetics and Devices

Anti-Aging Personality Aubrey de Grey Accused of Sexual Harassment

By Dan Robitzski

The military announced plans to performance test a new anti-aging pill that it developed to keep soldiers healthy and operating at peak performance.
Developments

The US Military Will Test an Anti-Aging Pill Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that there's no way to slow down the process of aging, even if modern medicine helps us live longer than before.
Studies

Study: Sorry, Aging Is Unstoppable, You Vain, Youth-Hungry Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

Only one-third of respondents to a survey said they'd take a pill that made them live forever, but more would consider it if they were younger.
Studies

Only One Third of US Adults Would Take an Immortality Pill

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.
Developments

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

By Dan Robitzski

A trio of scientists say that a new field of research called longevity medicine is emerging and that powerful AI is essentially leading the way.
Developments

AI Poised to Revolutionize Longevity, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.
RX and Medicine

This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have found a way to increase the lifespan of C. elegans worms fivefold, which would be equivalent to a human reaching the age of 500.
Science & Energy

Scientists Extend Lifespan of Worms by 500 Percent

By Kristin Houser