Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

Aging doesn’t occur uniformly throughout our lives, but accelerates during certain periods. A new study from scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found 48 disease-related proteins increase ...

The human body experiences rapid changes around age 50, according to a new study. Maskot/Getty Images While we can try to slow it down, human aging is something we currently can’t stop from happening.

A new meeting report was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on April 6, 2026, titled "Toward actionable interventions in ...

Are you over the hill? A shocking new study has pinpointed the exact window when the human aging process begins to accelerate — and it happens well before you reach senior status. Researchers found ...

Two squirts of a nasal spray, spaced days apart, were enough to quiet overactive immune cells in the brains of aging mice and ...

If you’ve ever wondered just how far the human body can push its limits, new research may have found an answer. A team of scientists has used massive health datasets and mathematical modeling to ...

Using nationally representative U.S. health data, researchers identified a sex-specific link between two PFAS compounds and ...

The immune system acts as a critical sentinel of organismal aging, integrating the sensing of physiological states with the ...

Sticks and stones may break your bones — but they won’t heal as easily past a certain age. New research has found the “point of no return” when we no longer recover as well from illness and injury, no ...

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic ...

This article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Johns Hopkins Engineering Magazine. In a cozy apartment, an older woman sits in an armchair, raptly attuned to a scene unfolding on her ...