In a potentially fundamental advance, researchers have opened up a novel approach to combating the effects of aging with the discovery that a special category of cells, known as senescent cells, are bad actors that promote the aging of the tissues. Cleansing the body of the cells, they hope, could postpone many of the diseases of aging. read more
Vitamin D, found in food, supplements and produced by sun exposure, can help stave off the mental decline that can affect people in old age, a study has suggested. read more