After decades of rising life expectancy, the increases appear to be slowing. A new study calls into question how long even the healthiest of populations can live. By Dana G. Smith The oldest human on ...

Research Interests: My research interests focus on life span development and aging, particularly the coaction and interplay of genes and environments on cognitive aging and the risk of Alzheimer's ...

A study of DNA from half a million volunteers supports an old evolutionary theory about why our bodies eventually wear out. By Carl Zimmer Why do we grow old and die? In the 19th century, the German ...

People around the world are, on the whole, living longer. At the same time, the gap between how long men and women live is decreasing, new research shows. The study of more than 190 countries ...

Analysis of genomic and behavioral data from the vast UK Biobank finally demonstrates that genes that promote reproductive behaviors come with the ultimate price. Aging stinks. You get marks on your ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin chatted about how advances in science could prolong the human life span in a rare hot mic moment in the Chinese capital.