Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Q&A: Aging and Alzheimer's disease—investigating drug effects

The geroscience hypothesis focuses on extending the healthy lifespan by targeting aging mechanisms. Recent advances in biomarkers for biological aging give rise to tools for measuring aging and assessing treatments. Alzheimer's ...

Neuroscience

Aging brain cell microglia tied to neurological disorders

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet have taken an important step toward understanding how microglia, the brain's immune cells, change with age and how these changes may contribute ...