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Health
Aging as a disease: The rise of longevity science
From treating specific diseases to targeting aging itself, Progress Conference 2025 explored the many routes to extending life.
Laura Mazer
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14 min
The Big Think Interview
We doubled human lifespans in the last 200 years. Can we do it again?
“Over the last 10 or 15 years, scientists have really started to understand the fundamental underlying biology of the aging process. And they broke this down into 12 hallmarks of aging.”
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Life
The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it
It's time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.
Andrew Hessel
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