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Illustrative: People celebrate an Independence Day party at the Reich Community Center for senior citizens of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
June 11, 2026, 3:18 pm
With eye to Israel’s future, Israeli experts help launch European healthy-aging initiative
June 12 gathering in Lithuanian parliament will see formation of international group of lawmakers and scientists working together to prepare for older populations
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Itamar Harel in his lab in the Department of Genetics, the Silberman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy/Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
June 11, 2026, 10:51 am
Live fast, die young: Israeli scientists link rapid-growth gene to early aging in fish
Alteration of VGLL3, also found in humans, results in shorter lifespan and higher tumor risk, say Hebrew University researchers, offering new evidence for decades-old evolutionary theory
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Haim Cohen, Director of the Sagol Healthy Human Longevity Center at Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. (Courtesy/Bar-Ilan University)
May 27, 2026, 5:18 pm
In step toward immortality, Israeli scientists say they can ‘rewind’ aging in mouse livers
SIRT6 ‘longevity’ protein reverses DNA structure in new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and US National Institute on Aging; treatment seeks to extend healthy human lifespan
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Iris Shai of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, dean of the School of Sustainability at Reichman University, and an adjunct professor at Harvard University, left (courtesy Nir Slakman), and Dr. Dafna Pachter, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (Courtesy)
May 20, 2026, 3:18 pm
Reducing deep stomach fat can improve your brain function, Israeli scientists find
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Leipzig and Harvard, say visceral fat reduction even for 18 months can decrease cognitive deterioration 5-10 years later
By Diana Bletter
Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
March 2, 2026, 12:58 pm
Israeli scientists: ‘SuperAger’ brains make twice as many new neurons as their healthy peers
A team of researchers from Israel and the US say their findings about biological brain flexibility in a new peer-reviewed study may help design therapeutics for healthy aging
By Diana Bletter
Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 7:23 am
Medical Holy Grail: Israeli researchers isolate elusive cells that may slow down aging
In peer-reviewed study, Prof. Alon Monsonego’s lab finds that ‘T helper’ blood cells, abundant in ‘super-centenarians’ in high-life-expectancy zone in Japan, may point the way to longevity
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A woman undergoing an MRI scan (Povozniuk via iStock by Getty Images)
September 20, 2023, 6:05 pm
Israeli researchers develop noninvasive method to assess iron levels in brain
Using MRI images and physical calculations, team led by Hebrew University PhD student gains vital data previously available only via autopsy or tissue sample examinations
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An elderly couple walk in a public park in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 4, 2021, 7:31 pm
Israeli scientist looks to genes to predict healthy aging
Research on SIRT6 protein finds that some DNA damage can be reversed using interventions such as calorie restriction
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A neuron network with electrical activity of neuron cells (libre de droit; iStock by Getty Images)
December 3, 2020, 7:03 am
Scientists successfully restore cells to youth, bring back sight in mice
David Sinclair, a Harvard professor of Jewish heritage who co-authored study, says he hopes to turn back time at cellular level, reversing damage caused by injury, disease and age
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Studies into the genetics of 'super-ager' Ashkenazi Jews could mean drugs that could help the general population live up to 35 years longer. (iStock)
September 18, 2020, 11:06 pm
Only as old as your genes: Ashkenazi ‘super-agers’ could hold key to long life
‘Aging as we know it shouldn’t happen,’ says Israeli researcher Nir Barzilai, whose new book studies 750 centenarians, finding that drugs may delay the onset of major diseases
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Amish people in Pennsylvania. (Andrea Izzotti/iStock via Getty images)
November 15, 2017, 10:42 pm
Rare Amish genetic mutation may point way to anti-aging treatment
Study of Indiana community finds those with a single variant version of Serpine1 live on average 10 years longer, with better metabolic health
By ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of a Filipina worker helping an elderly woman on November 2, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 7, 2016, 4:40 am
How long can people live? New study suggests 115 years
Research puts limit on human lifespan; says short of technological or medical breakthroughs, it will be hard to extend
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Eli Kaufman
December 24, 2015, 1:01 pm
Eli Kaufman
Let’s discover what’s possible
Can medical science really get people to the point where they can live a century or more – with a high quality of life?
Runners in the Jerusalem marathon on March 25, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)
July 24, 2015, 2:18 pm
Are we getting older faster than we think?
Israeli scientists take part in study measuring aging process in youth, opening a door to prevent age-related diseases
By David Shamah
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