05/06/2023
“We can learn why these people delay or escape Alzheimer’s disease, and use that to come up with drugs to combat it much earlier in a person’s life, so they don’t get the disease,” said Dr. Thomas Perls, a professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and lead researcher of a new study on centenarians and Alzheimer’s.
Thomas Perls, director of BU’s New England Centenarian Study, explains how and why some people live to 100 years
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The oldest-known person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, has died at the age of 119. Host Marco Werman discusses
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You have two choices when pondering how—and whether—you will live a long, healthy life.
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Being Latina and being a woman, Arrecís has a favorable combination to be a centenarian, according to Thomas Perls
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In the early 1990s, Tom Perls met two people who would change his life. Perls, then a gerontology fellow at Harvard
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By studying centenarians, researchers hope to develop strategies to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and slow brain a
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Evidence that extreme human longevity is heritable is solid: extreme longevity clusters in families, and siblings o
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Genetics also play a significant role. The landmark New England Centenarian Study, begun in 1995, identif
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Using samples from the New England Centenarian Study (NECS), we sought to characterize the serum proteome of 77 cen
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Identifying omics profiles in centenarians and other species and translating these into preventive and therapeutic strategies
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In Age Later, Dr. Barzilai reveals the secrets his team has unlocked about SuperAgers and the scientific discoveries that show we can mimic some of their natural resistance to the aging process. This eye-opening and inspirational book will help you think of aging not as a certainty, but as a phenomenon like many other diseases and misfortunes
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