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Is Alzheimer's Like a Strange Form of Brain Cancer?

Biochemist Peter Davies suspects the vast majority of research is on the wrong track: The disease is caused by improper cell division, not plaques or tangles. 10.02.2009

A Modest Proposal: How to Stop Aging Entirely

Biologist Aubrey de Grey lays out a plan to stay young forever. Key step: finally winning the war on cancer. 09.23.2009

Looking at Stress—and God—in the Human Brain

DISCOVER reporter David Ewing Duncan uses fMRI to try to track his thoughts on some big questions. 04.24.2009

#18: Two Alzheimer’s Drugs Show Promise

The new drugs use a totally different mechanism than most would-be treatments. 12.19.2008

Is Wine What Flows Through the Fountain of Youth?

GlaxoSmithKline bets $720 million that a new class of red wine-inspired drugs will slow aging in humans. 09.16.2008

One Cure for Vertigo: Playing Pinball Inside Your Head.

By manipulating your head just so, a doctor can sometimes cure chronic dizziness. 09.10.2008

53. High-Intensity MRI Could Catch Alzheimer’s, MS

01.09.2008

The Body Engineers

Hormone researchers seek new life for old brains and bones. 12.13.2007

Scientist of the Year Notable: Elizabeth Blackburn

Her genetic explorations could lead to revolutionary treatments for cancer. 12.06.2007

Can We Cure Aging?

Controlling inflammation could be the key to a healthy old age. 12.04.2007

If You Never Aged, How Long Would You Live?

With a little luck, you could well make it to your 20,000th birthday. 11.16.2007

Forever Young

Suzanne Somers says special hormones can keep women young. Should they listen? 11.13.2007

Small Genetic Differences, Huge Health Problems

Genomics takes the first step toward curing the toughest diseases. 10.03.2007

Health Trends: Strain Bad for Brain

Another great reason to avoid chronic distress. 07.13.2007

Health FAQs: Toned Bones

Nutrients can keep your osteo- free of -porosis. 07.10.2007

Health Trends: Menopause and Bone Loss

Avoid it before you have to treat it. 07.06.2007

Osteoporosis Hits Men, Too

But it's under-treated and under-researched. 06.13.2007

Hormone Therapy: Sooner, Later, or Not at All?

Sorting out the cloudy issue that is estrogen replacement 06.11.2007

Video Games vs. the Aging Brain

How a mental gym can tone your mind and stave off memory loss. 05.21.2007

Anti-Aging Gene

Can a simple flip of a gene make you live twice as long? 05.18.2007

Raw Data: Is Cancer the Price of Longevity?

The same protein that prevents cancer may also encourage aging. 12.06.2006

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Death

Newsflash: we're all going to die. But here are 20 things you didn't know about kicking the bucket. 09.01.2006

Seeing Machine

A new device uses LED light to give a blind poet sight. 07.28.2006

Osteoporosis and Bears

Bears may hold the secret to keeping our bones healthy. 06.20.2006

Longevity

Could a pill control appetite and keep you alive decades longer? 10.24.2005

Gaining Pounds, Losing Years

Obesity can shorten your life. 03.17.2005

39: Cell Mutations Spark Aging

Aging may begin in the mitochondria—the powerplants of the cells 01.02.2005

Basic Research: Cynthia Kenyon

11.25.2004

Ginger's Gene

A genetic alteration causes premature aging. 10.01.2004

Discover Dialogue: Biologist Cynthia Kenyon

The idea that aging is something that's not a given is a new paradigm 03.28.2004

The Physics of ... Wrinkles

A general theory of wrinkling puts your face in touch with the universe 11.08.2003

A century ago, most Americans lived to be about 50. Today people over 100 make up the fastest-growing segment of the population. As some researchers bet that children born today will live to be 150, others say there is no upward limit on longevity 11.06.2003

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