Scientists discovered that physical exercise triggers the production of a molecule called MOTS-c directly within the mitochondria. Now, researchers are investigating what happens when that signal is amplified, or when it fades with age.
How scientists redesigned one of the body’s own molecules, four letters at a time, to create one of the most studied tools in longevity research.
If you are following this progression, you have already noticed the pattern: each generation does not just improve on the previous one, it changes what the next generation allows itself to investigate.
Inside every cell of your body there is a molecule that governs energy, repairs DNA, and tells your cells how much time they have. Research on NAD+ may be pointing to one of the most fundamental questions in human biology.
The Axis That Ages: What Happens to GH, IGF-1, and Muscle as Time Passes
The story of KISS1 is one of the most surprising cases in modern biology: a molecule identified in an oncology laboratory that, seven years later, rewrote what science understood about fertility and puberty.
What if you could disassemble a hormone and keep only the part that matters?
The pulsatility of growth hormone is one of the most sophisticated phenomena in human biology, and researchers believe that preserving it may be one of the most promising frontiers in the study of aging.
Clinical trials published in JAMA used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe, in real time, what a molecule does to the brain that processes desire. What they found changes the way of thinking about sexual dysfunction.
Why the world’s most serious researchers stopped looking at DNA and began studying the cell’s power plant, and what a synthetic tetrapeptide has to do with it.