A type of cellular stress known to be involved in cancer and aging has now been implicated, for the first time, in Alzheimer’s disease.
Research findings offer hope for a pill to someday treat alcoholic fatty liver disease.
A $1 million gift will name the Zachry Laboratory at the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies building, currently under construction.
A new era of aging research began when UT Health San Antonio broke ground on a new and expanded Sam & Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity & Aging Studies.
Mapping the effects of exercise at the smallest level will show its impact on overall health.
The latest news in faculty honors and recognitions.
It’s an unsettling thought: You could be walking around for 20 years developing Parkinson’s disease and not even know it.
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The world’s longest-lived rodents don’t eat broccoli, but they have the protection of a protein that, in humans, is activated by consumption of steamed broccoli. The protein is called Nrf2, and it was connected with the maximum life span in 10 rodent species tested by the UT Health Science Center’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and […]