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Tag: Aging

Researchers establish best methods to measure genetic variation within the body (Links to an external site)

November 5, 2026November 12, 2026
Illustration of DNA double helix

Quantifying mutations that accumulate over time could give clues to diseases of aging, cancer development.

HIV viral control is necessary but not sufficient for healthy aging

October 27, 2026October 27, 2026
Beau Ances, MD, PhD, the Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology, (left) and Kalen Petersen, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology, (right)

People with HIV show signs of faster aging than their peers without HIV, even when the virus is undetectable, according to a study led by neurology researchers Kalen Petersen, PhD, and Beau Ances, MD, PhD.

Immune cell map uncovers how individual aging trajectories diverge (Links to an external site)

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026
scale showing two different immune cells on each plate

Study finds cellular immune patterns associated with chronic diseases, death.

Faster aging in younger generations linked to rise in early-onset cancer (Links to an external site)

June 22, 2026June 26, 2026

Immune system aging linked to earlier lung cancer; fat tissue aging linked to earlier colorectal cancer.

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