Aging – Our Narratives

A DNA double helix threads through the landscape of living tissue, its branches reaching toward the organs that age on their own clocks — muscle, brain, liver, fat. The body does not grow old all at once.

The Synchronized Clock: Is Aging a Body-Wide Orchestration?

Self portrait, Image credit: Dr. Junyue Cao The Synchronized Clock: Is Aging a Body-Wide Orchestration? A large-scale single-cell atlas suggests that aging is coordinated across tissues and begins earlier than previously assumed Editor’s Note Aging is often described as a gradual accumulation of damage within individual tissues. Recent work by Dr. Junyue Cao and colleagues […]

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Reversing Memory Loss: How Gene Editing Could Rewrite the Rules of Aging

Dr. Timothy Jarome, whose research at Virginia Tech explores how gene editing could reverse age-related memory decline. Image credit: Marya Barlow for Virginia Tech Scientists at Virginia Tech discover that age-related memory loss has specific causes in the brain that can be targeted and reversed, offering new hope for Alzheimer’s treatment Memory decline might not