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OFAS presented the third Dr. Norman Orentreich Award for Young Investigator on Aging to Maximilian Schmid-Siegel, a Ph.D. candidate at...

An intermittent variation of the dietary intervention methionine restriction protects against obesity and provides additional metabolic...

Modern science has scoured the planet for naturally-occurring compounds that might hold medicinal benefits. For example, rapamycin,...

A recent study from Stanford University School of Medicine demonstrates the partial restoration of brain function in old mice with...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that heat, not resulting in work, will increase a system’s state of entropy, and very simply...

Thinking of biological aging as analogous to a clock, research has given us two distinct avenues of lifespan-extending intervention: the...

In June 2021, the FDA approved semaglutide, a highly anticipated pharmaceutical treatment for obesity. This marked the first weight-loss...

Vaccines have been on the mind of almost everyone for the last two years. Undoubtedly, vaccines have led to a near incalculable benefit...

Exercise has for many years been known to be among the most robust means to support a healthy and long lifespan. In a previous post, we...

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According to the CDC, an estimated 5.8 million people over age 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a population predicted to triple...

Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. are considered obese, and the incidence of obesity has steadily risen over time in nearly every...

In 1935 Clive McCay published a paper demonstrating the pro-longevity effects of caloric restriction that would come to shape the future...

In the United States, more than 65% of individuals above the age of 50 have hypertension (abnormally high blood pressure). The occurrence...

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OFAS Associate Scientist Dr. Sailendra Nichenametla will chair a webinar, “Sulfur Amino Acid Restriction – Moving from Animals to...

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Researchers from Mayo Clinic have uncovered a novel way in which exercise may contribute to healthy aging by suppressing an age-related...

A post-doctoral position at the Orentreich Foundation for the Advancement of Science (Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY) is immediately available...

Adding the nutrient selenium to diets protects against obesity and provides metabolic benefits to mice, according to a study published...