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“Higher education means you won’t get dementia”—it sounds reassuring, but the science is more nuanced. This article explains, in clear language, what a large multi-country longitudinal study actually found about education, memory decline...

In recent years, cancer and aging have increasingly been understood not as separate biological phenomena, but as interconnected processes. Immune decline and chronic inflammation in cancer patients may not be caused solely by treatment s...

Recent research highlights that aging and obesity each independently promote cancer progression and can act synergistically to worsen outcomes. However, weight loss appears capable of rejuvenating immune function and suppressing tumor gr...

New Hypothesis Links Stress, the Brain, and Systemic Aging In the June 2025 issue of Nature (Vol.642), researchers from Columbia University led by Dr. Martin Picard proposed that senescent cells—those associated with aging—may consume do...

Can human cells divide forever? In 1961, Leonard Hayflick and Paul Moorhead provided a clear answer to this question. Their seminal paper demonstrated that normal human diploid cells have a limited number of divisions, introducing the co...