Some of the signs of aging in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age.

Scientists have determined that nobody, not even a centenarian, dies of old age. The traditional view is that ‘old age’ is a cause of death; that as a person gets older, their systems gradually ...

For generations, scientists thought the brain couldn't improve much after a certain age. Dr. Majid Fotuhi discovered simple, evidence-based ways we can grow even sharper as we age.

My grandmother Leontina, who recently turned 100, still lives independently and remembers the birthday of everybody in her ...

These stats didn’t age well. A recent survey by Edubirdie — which polled 2,000 Gen Z and young Millennials, defined as those born in the late ’90s and early 2000s — dared to ask the younger ...

Common health problems of old age -- dehydration, delirium, malnutrition or falls -- can become catastrophic if they occur following a major surgery, a new study reports. Seniors who suffer these ...

As we age, we don’t recover from injury or illness like we did when we were young. But new research from UC San Francisco has found gene regulators that turn genes on and off that could restore the ...