A familiar diabetes pill could hold the power to slow the biological forces that leave the body increasingly vulnerable to disease as it ages. What if a drug already prescribed to millions of people could do more than control blood sugar? For years, researchers have wondered whether metformin, one of the world’s most widely used [...]

Scientists say aging may expose decades of hidden damage, helping trigger diseases that seem to appear out of nowhere in later life. A recent review published in Aging-US explores a fresh way of understanding why aging is so closely linked to chronic disease. In the paper, “Aging as a multifactorial disorder with two stages,” researchers [...]

Scientists are discovering that some of the cells linked to aging may also be key to staying healthy. A growing body of research is changing how scientists view one of aging biology’s most studied cell types: senescent cells, often called “zombie cells.” While these cells have long been associated with aging and chronic disease, new [...]