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Shift Your Mindset is a monthly series from CNN’s Mindfulness, But Better team. We talk to experts about how to do things differently to live a better life. If so, do we really want eternal life? In ...

Geneticist Anne Brunet explores what aging really is, how lifestyle choices might influence longevity, and the promising ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a driving force in longevity science. Once a behind-the-scenes tool, AI is now central to how researchers accelerate timelines, discover new drugs, and ...

(Bernd Vogel/Stone/Getty Images) While we all celebrate our birthdays every 12 months (our chronological age), it doesn't ...

The Rowe family dog Ralph was one of many canines with dementia who participated in a study of rapamycin. Scientists were ...

For anyone overwhelmed by the discourse around longevity and the seemingly constant “breakthroughs” in the quest to vanquish the march of time, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan’s new ...

With the global population living longer—the number of people worldwide aged 80 years or over is projected to triple by 2050—understanding the factors that influence healthy aging throughout our ...

Aging has long been seen as a natural, unstoppable part of life. From the moment we're born, our bodies transform — first through growth, then through gradual decline. Over time, stamina wanes, ...

This series was created for Google, the Buck Institute, Optispan and Phenome Health by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. For most people, ...