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An Anti-Stress Pill that Prevents Your Body from Aging

Stress runs down the body's immune system, which is why people with high-stress jobs or events in their lives are vulnerable to illness. Now a researcher at UCLA has discovered the link between emotional stress and physical damage — and she's going to develop a pill that will allow you to endure stress without the nasty side-effects. And there may also be one good side-effect: Extreme longevity. More »

3:40 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Annalee Newitz
8,739 views, 19 comments

dystopia

Life Expectancy Going Down in the United States

In some parts of the United States, medicine has not improved the average life expectancy — and in fact, the average lifespan has been going steadily downward since the 1980s. No, immigration is not to blame for these shifting numbers. These are U.S. citizens in hundreds of different counties whose lives are getting shorter while many other people's lives get longer. A study published on Monday in PLoS Medicine shows where in the U.S. lives (especially women's lives) are getting shorter — and where they're getting longer. In these maps, dark red regions are those of decreasing life expectancy, and dark green regions are areas where it's increasing. Light red means life expectancy is lower than average but not decreasing; and light green means higher than average but not increasing. White is average. So what is killing people at younger ages now that didn't kill them in the 1970s? More »

3:56 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Annalee Newitz
5,214 views, 51 comments

Latest by n/a: It's disgusting and morally reprehensible that the richest country in the world is literally eating itself to death while untold millions starve because they were unlucky enough to be born in a "poor" country. more »

living forever

A New Generation of Superold People, Created Without Genetic Tinkering

Living to be 100 years old is going to become more common in the twenty-first century, even if we don't make any great leaps forward in medical technology. The Archives of Internal Medicine today published a study showing that genetics account for only about one-fourth of the variation in human life span. That means 75 percent of the factors that affect longevity are environmental, and often under your control. Three basic ways of modifying your life can mean the difference between living to be 60, and living for a century. More »

1:10 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,852 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: I'd love to live to be 200. That makes 100 the new 50, and 50 the new 25! more »