Life and Health Today
Health and longevity news for everyday readers, published daily from the United States: regenerative medicine, longevity research, exercise and nutrition science, and biohacking. Reported from the research and from the agencies that regulate it, in plain language, alongside a curated feed of the day's coverage elsewhere, each item linking to the publication that reported it.
Latest articles
- Oura's IPO filing reveals what the ring does not yet do Biohacking
Oura filed to go public with $500 million in 2024 revenue and ambitions to detect illness and track blood glucose. Its own SEC filing says none of that is FDA-cleared as a diagnostic today. Here...
- Bat DNA study links long lifespan to aggressive cell death, not repair Longevity
A genomic analysis of eight Myotis bat species, published in Nature, found that the longest-lived bats respond to severely damaged cells by killing them off rather than trying to fix them....
- Johns Hopkins built a microscope that watches mouse brains for 24 hours straight Regenerative
A miniaturised, cloud-connected microscope called CloudScope can image a living mouse's brain continuously for more than a day, capturing seizures, tumour cell behaviour and blood-flow changes...
- Children who spend more time outdoors are less likely to develop myopia, trials find Longevity
Nearsightedness is rising fast enough that researchers estimate half the global population will have it by 2050. Two randomised trials and multiple reviews point to time spent in bright outdoor...
- Semaglutide extended lifespan in older mice, but human evidence is absent Longevity
A University of California, Berkeley study found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, extended median lifespan by nearly 100 days in older female mice and improved...
- Lab-built bone marrow chip shows how antibody cells settle and survive Regenerative
Scientists at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt University have built a device that reproduces two distinct zones of human bone marrow outside the body, letting them watch antibody-producing cells...