Genes newly linked to longer human lifespan

Scientists identify 17 new genetic markers linked to longer lifespan

Researchers have identified 17 new gene variants associated with a longer lifespan – increasing their numbers from the existing eight to 25.

New Study Shows Blocking DNA Transposons Can Increase Lifespan

Studying roundworms, scientists discovered a direct cause of aging—and a way to slow it. “If we are right, the human lifespan can be ...

Researchers identify twenty-five genetic changes that could have ...

Researchers identify twenty-five genetic changes that could have extended human lifespan ... Senescence, or biological ageing, refers to the ...

Genetics of healthy aging and longevity

A haplotype of SNPs at LMNA, the gene that is mutated in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, was associated with long life (age >95 years) in 873 LLI ...

Affecting Longevity: Early Life Experiences Can Have Long-Lasting ...

The study, published in Nature Aging, found that gene expression “memory” can persist throughout a person's life and may represent a new target ...

Longevity breakthrough: Scientists uncover key gene that extends ...

The researchers arrived at this discovery by studying a larger group of proteins regulated by the FOXO transcription factor, which is known as a ...

17 new genetic variants linked to a longer lifespan discovered

The study quite rightly concludes that human lifespan is most certainly a polygenetic trait, with no single magic aging gene existing to help ...

A Longer Life May Not Be in Your Genes | Live Science

But now, a large new study of data from the genealogy website Ancestry reveals that genetics may play less of a role in life span than ...

Is Longevity Primarily Determined by Genetics? - Consensus

Several studies have highlighted the genetic basis of longevity. Research indicates that certain genes are consistently associated with longer lifespans.

Live Long and Proper: Genetic Factors Associated with Increased ...

Although a healthy lifestyle and environmental factors can promote longevity, a new genome ... "We know a lot about the human genome, but ...

Can We Genetically Engineer a Longer Life? - Technology Networks

... new way to genetically program these processes to extend lifespan ... Our lifespans as humans are determined by the aging of our ...

Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests

Dr. Zhang noted that the mutations he and Dr. Long identified each had a tiny influence on a person's longevity. As the variants have become ...

Gene changes cut lifespan | The University of Edinburgh

Scientists have identified DNA changes that can cut a person's lifespan by up to three years. They have discovered two separate areas of the ...

Longevity gene from naked mole rats extends lifespan of mice

... lifespan and reduce inflammation-related diseases in humans ... genetics of lifespan suggest new targets to combat aging and age-related diseases.

New method identifies 25 genetic changes associated with longer ...

... genes associated with wound healing, blood coagulation ... New method identifies 25 genetic changes associated with longer human lifespan.

New Gene May Influence Longevity | Technology Networks

Researchers discovered a particular protein (known as OSER1) when they studied a larger group of proteins regulated by the major ...

New England Centenarian Study - Boston University Medical Campus

Therefore, their tremendous survival advantage may in great part be due to the existence of longevity associated genetic variants that are protective and ...

Discovery of 'Methuselah gene' unlocks secret of long life | Genetics

... extend human life ... related to each other than the control group. 'Of course, their longevity could ...

Scientists Slow Aging by Engineering Longevity in Cells

Researchers have developed a biosynthetic “clock” that keeps cells from reaching normal levels of deterioration related to aging.

How genetics and technology could increase human longevity

A recent article written by Peter Diamandis explores how genome sequencing and editing, and new classes of anti-ageing drugs are augmenting ...