Insect protein could support healthy ageing and fight climate change: Charoen Krung Photography/Shutterstock When we think about the future of food, it’s unlikely that crickets, meal worms or grasshoppers come to mind. But believe it or not, insects might just be one of the most promising answers to two big global problems: feeding a growing …
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman: From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the …
The curious link between animal hibernation and ageing – and what humans could learn from it: Nicoleta Ionescu/Shutterstock When the cold and dark winter is setting in, some of us envy animals that can hibernate. This long, deep rest is an example of how nature develops clever solution to difficult problems. In this case, how …
What the world’s oldest dog can tell us about ageing: If you have ever cared for a pet dog, it is a sad truth that you are likely to outlive them. So it’s no wonder that people may be asking how to increase their pet’s longevity following the news that a dog in Portugal lived …
Yoweri Museveni: ageing Uganda president rides on the memory of his past heroics: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two tyrannies: in 1979 his militia helped to oust Idi Amin’s famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s …
AI finds drugs that could fight ageing and age-related diseases: Photoroyalty/Shutterstock Finding new drugs – called “drug discovery” – is an expensive and time-consuming task. But a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can massively accelerate the process and do the job for a fraction of the price. My colleagues and I recently used …
Ageing: hormone could help predict men’s long-term health years in advance – new study: Who is likely to develop age-related disease could be predicted years in advance by looking at INSL3. Evgeny Atamanenko/ Shutterstock We all age, but we don’t all age the same way. For some people, ageing means an increased risk of developing …
Go glammas! How older people are turning to TikTok to dispel myths about ageing: Ranta Images/Shutterstock During lockdown, my 65-year-old mother did something that actually shocked me. She started going on to TikTok so she could watch and follow her favourite “Dancing Dadi” – which means grandmother in Hindi. I was genuinely taken aback to …
Eating sea squirts reverses signs of ageing in mice – new research: Sea squirts. Kichigin/Shutterstock Mice fed extracts of a creature called a sea squirt – so-called because they tend to squirt water when plucked from their briny home – reversed some of the signs of ageing, according to a recent study from China. The …
Severe COVID is equivalent to 20 years of ageing – new study: Hyejin Kang Severe COVID results in cognitive impairment similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent of losing ten IQ points, our latest research shows. The effects are still detectable more than six months after the …
Jeff Bezos is looking to defy death – this is what we know about the science of ageing: Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the ambitious new anti-ageing company with billions of investment. So what does science really say …
Tackling ageing could be a better way of treating and preventing multimorbidity: Targeting the biological causes of ageing could be one method for better treating multimorbidity. oneinchpunch/ Shutterstock Over half of UK adults over the age of 65 live with two or more long-term health conditions – commonly known as multimorbidity. People living with multimorbidity …
Gut bacteria rewind ageing brain in mice: Neil Lockhart/Shutterstock In 1895, on turning 50, Elie Metchnikoff became increasingly anxious about ageing. As a result, the Russian Nobel prize-winning scientist, and one of the founders of immunology, turned his attention away from immunology and towards gerontology – a term that he coined. He was fascinated by …
Kenya’s civil service is ageing, but adjustments aren’t being made: Shutterstock The demographic profiles of countries like Kenya, where a high percentage of people are young, would suggest that it’s swiftly renewing its workforce with fresh talent. But this doesn’t seem to be the case. We conducted a study in a public sector organisation three …
Cognitive decline due to ageing can be reversed in mice – here’s what the new study means for humans: Memory declines with age. Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock The ageing global population is the greatest challenge faced by 21st-century healthcare systems. Even COVID-19 is, in a sense, a disease of ageing. The risk of death from the virus …
Concussion can accelerate ageing of the brain – research from the rugby pitch: Shutterstock/Alex Kravtsov The serious harm caused by concussion in sport first became apparent among the “punch-drunk” boxers who suffered repetitive blows to the head over the course of their fighting careers. A related form of brain damage is known to affect a …
How coronavirus exposes the way we regard ageing and old people: Shutterstock The elderly have come to occupy a central place in our news bulletins these days. Headlines were quick to inform the public that the highest mortality rate from COVID-19 is in people aged 70 and over. Experts have repeatedly announced that the pandemic …
Healthy Ageing For Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Older People Forum – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-11-28 08:30:00 in Australia You are invited to attend a free Forum and Expo for staff, volunteers and community leaders working with older people from culturally and linguistically (CALD) diverse backgrounds in the Northern Sydney region. The Forum …