by John McMillan | Aug 8, 2025 | Aging, Health
Karin Modig, Karolinska Institutet Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live,...
by John McMillan | Aug 8, 2025 | COVID-19, Inflammation
Dr. Philp McMillan, John McMillan Human biology operates on an elegant principle: cells that malfunction are marked for removal, swept away by the body’s quality control systems. But what happens when a protein hijacks this process, creating cells that can...
by John McMillan | Aug 1, 2025 | Health, Medical Research
Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University Green tea and red wine may seem like simple dietary choices – but beneath the surface, they harbour compounds with remarkable medical potential. Scientists are uncovering how these everyday...
by John McMillan | Aug 1, 2025 | Health, Medical Research
Franklin Nobrega, University of Southampton If bacteria had a list of things to fear, phages would be at the top. These viruses are built to find, infect and kill them – and they have been doing it for billions of years. Now that ancient battle is offering clues for...
by John McMillan | Aug 1, 2025 | Aging, Diet, Health
Adrián Carballo Casla, Karolinska Institutet; Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet, and David Abbad Gomez Imagine two people in their 70s. Both are active, live independently and enjoy life. But over the next 15 years, one of them develops two or three...
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