News about aging

The open access position paper “The need to increase support for healthy ageing and longevity research in the EU by establishing a Coordination and Support Programme on Healthy Ageing and Longevity” has been published in Mechanisms of Ageing and Development!https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2026.112187 This position paper is co-authored… Read More »The need to increase support for healthy ageing and longevity research in the EU

Healthy Ageing & Longevity Assembly 2026 Lithuania Aims Building on the ideas and conclusions of the international conference “Towards Healthy Longevity,” held in the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania on 19 September 2025, the next stage – the “Healthy Ageing and Longevity Assembly 2026,”… Read More »Healthy Ageing and Longevity Assembly 2026 Lithuania

On May 15, there is a significant date in the longevity world – the 180th anniversary of the birth of Elie Metchnikoff (15 May 1845 – 15 July 1916) – a Nobel Laureate, a founder of cell immunology, and THE founder of the modern science of aging… Read More »Happy Metchnikoff Day! May 15, 2025 – The 180th anniversary of Elie Metchnikoff – the founder of Gerontology

The “UN World Population Prospects 2024” is now finally published (on 12 July 2024), including real-life data on global life expectancy for 2023 and 2024. The great news, according to this report: “Following the COVID-19 pandemic, global life expectancy is rising once again [!] Globally,… Read More »Global life expectancy is rising once again

Some good news about life expectancy, at least for some countries. After significant declines in 2020-2021, the life expectancies are beginning to strongly improve in 2022! (The data will be added as life expectancy data for 2022 are just beginning to be published.) According to… Read More »Life expectancies begin to recover

This year, as every year since 2013, there is an initiative to organize events and publications in support of healthy longevity R&D and education, during the Longevity Day or Longevity Month – starting from October 1 (the International Day of Older People, sometimes also called… Read More »Organizing events for the International Longevity Day / Month campaign in October

Please support the campaign to promote aging research in Europe! Dear Colleagues, We have discussed strategies to promote aging research in Europe. We believe that a joint effort of aging researchers in Europe could make an impact particularly with regards to fund basic research on aging. There are massive investments in the… Read More »Support Aging Research in Horizon Europe program for 2025-2027

The conference: Longevity Nation – Enhancing research development and education for healthy longevity March 26-27, 2023 Bar Ilan University, Nanotechnology Bldg 206, Ramat Gan, Israel This conference will explore the interdisciplinary interrelations of science, technology and society in addressing the challenges of population aging. By… Read More »Longevity Nation Conference – Bar Ilan University – Israel – 26-27 March 2023 – Co-organized by ILA

The International Longevity Alliance (ILA) launches a worlwide and endless collaboration with all, based on open data, to collectively see how to improve health worlwide.  The ILA welcomes any volunteer and any institution to join the project! Instructions are on http://OpenData4Health.org .To all life extensionists, you are welcome to contact your… Read More »OpenData4Health – open data for longer healthier lives worldwide

The main stated aim of the International Longevity Alliance (ILA) is achieving “healthy longevity for all through scientific research” (https://longevityalliance.org/). To promote this aim, ILA acts as an organization for the advancement of longevity science, and its positive social and humanitarian aspects, producing methodological and… Read More »ILA scientific activities and activities for the advancement of science