A man who lived to age 114 died recently on a small Mediterranean island. Until age 102 he rode a bicycle every day to tend to his family's orchards. His 101-year-old brother, his two daughters aged 81 and 77, and a nephew aged 85 all still live in a small town on the Spanish island of Minorca. All of which got some scientists wondering: ...

I was just able to score a short interview with Aubrey de Grey at my website, theelectricpulse.com.  Check it out, the permalink is: http://theelectricpulse.com/blogs/index.php?blog=1&title=aubrey-de-grey-interview&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Imagine yourself 150 years old, pregnant and still going strong. Is this scenario the stuff of science fiction? Scientists predict that in fifty years time every organ in the body, except the brain, will be replaceable. Even the heart can be renovated. The future won’t just be a healthier short life. The search for eternal life is ...

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's biggest drugmaker, agreed to buy Sirtris Pharmaceuticals Inc. for about $720 million, adding an experimental treatment derived from red wine that's thought to slow the effects of aging.SRT501 mimics resveratrol, which has been linked to longevity, Sirtris scientists said. The ...

From Copenhagen - Taking vitamins on a daily basis may not help you live longer, and may even raise the risk of death. In a meta-analysis of 67 randomized clinical trials and data from over 200,000 subjects, taking vitamins did not have an overall positive effect on longevity. Vitamin A was shown to raise mortality by 16%, beta-carotene by 7% ...

Linked mutations in growth genes with life genes?

A woman in Israel has outlived most official record-keeping. She attributes her long life to a cup of olive oil a day.

longevity robot

Unofficial promotional video made for SENS research.

A group of scientists have dedicated their lives to finding out what the longest lived communities have in common.