Two men in white Longevity Minds T-shirts stand in front of Tokyo Tower
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Longevity Minds Launches a Tokyo Community Built Around Aging

Shuzo Yamamoto and Satotaka Omori are building a Tokyo community of scientists and builders around aging, in a country where nearly 30 percent of people are already over 65.

Editorial Team • • 4 min
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Avaí Bio and Austrianova Present an Encapsulated-Cell Approach to α-Klotho

At the Second Annual Klotho Conference, the companies described implanted cells, protected inside Austrianova’s Cell-in-a-Box capsules, that are meant to secrete α-Klotho over a long period.

Anton Dalsätt • • 3 min
A bowl of Prolon’s Next Gen butternut squash soup with a spoon
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L-Nutra Marks 10 Years of Prolon and Closes an $83.5 Million Series D

The Los Angeles company says two recent human trials found that its fasting-mimicking diet induced autophagy and lowered biological age by an average of 2.5 years after three cycles.

Anton Dalsätt • • 3 min
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, seen from the courtyard
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Buck Institute Will Use Oracle Health Data to Build an Intrinsic Capacity Score

The Novato institute is applying more than 122 million de-identified longitudinal records to an ARPA-H effort to measure vitality and spot age-related decline earlier.

William Ferreira Andrén • • 3 min
Insilico Medicine graphic for the Longevity Vaccines research program
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Insilico Launches Longevity Vaccines Research to Clear Early Drivers of Aging

The program uses generative AI and circular mRNA to design single-dose, self-limiting therapies that direct a patient’s own T cells against the cells that start age-related disease, beginning with the immune system.

Anton Dalsätt • • 4 min
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BioViva Secures a U.S. Patent for an hTERT and Follistatin Gene-Therapy Approach

U.S. Patent No. 12,653,907 covers methods that combine hTERT and Follistatin-344 for age-related disorders, including approaches tied to telomere length, muscle mass, and blood glucose.

Anton Dalsätt • • 3 min
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Calorie Restriction Reduced DNA Mutations Across the Mouse Genome

Mice fed 30% fewer calories carried fewer DNA mutations in several tissues, with the largest drop in the liver and in the quietest parts of the genome, a Cell study from NYU Langone reports.

William Ferreira Andrén • • 3 min