What Is Longevity?

What Is Longevity?

The word “longevity” is sometimes used as a synonym for “life expectancy” in demography. At NOMIX, the term longevity refers only to especially long-lived, and healthy, members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically...
Why Do We Age?

Why Do We Age?

In this podcast episode, Dr. David Sinclair and co-host Matthew LaPlante discuss why we age. In doing so, they discuss organisms that have extreme longevity, the genes that control aging (i.e. mTOR, AMPK, Sirtuins), the role of sirtuin proteins as epigenetic...