In the next year, Special Operations Command expects to move into clinical trials with a pill that may inhibit or reduce some degenerative effects of aging and injury to support optimal human performance.

A novel biological clock assesses how quickly our immune systems are aging based on biomarkers of chronic inflammation, coining the clock as iAge.

Gut microbes that break down the amino acid tryptophan secrete small molecules called indoles — and these indoles are a key factor in stimulating new neuron growth in the adult brain.

The Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon exhibit a significantly slower decrease in brain volume with age than populations in the U.S. and Europe — this study examines why.