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We only get to live one life. Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir dreamt of something beyond that when she said, “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, i... See more

What is novel about therapies that target aging is that they tend to produce improvements across the board. Normally, drugs tend to treat a single condition, leaving everything else untouched. But as aging is the breakdown of our body’s capability for self-maintenance in general, addressing that one root cause ameliorates all the conditions downstr... See more

Of course, we are far from delivering on such a grand promise, but therapies inspired by a new wave of research are already making it through the drug approval process. We don’t know yet to what extent they will truly work in humans, but promising animal studies show reasons for optimism – more so when it has been found that the mechanisms that und... See more

Like death and taxes, aging has long been seen as an inevitable part of the human condition. But during the last 30 years, our scientific understanding of what aging is has improved, and with that, what once seemed impossible is now getting closer to being true: today, only a lucky few make it past 80 in good health, but what if most people did so?... See more