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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

longevity

Morrie Markoff in 2023. (Courtesy The Brain Donor Project via JTA)
June 12, 2024, 7:57 am
Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110
Markoff became an avid blogger and author after turning 100; leaves exceptionally lucid brain to science; wife Betty died in 2019 after 81 years of marriage
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Sister Andre, Lucile Randon in the registry of birth, prays in a wheelchair, on the eve of her 117th birthday, February 10, 2021. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP)
January 18, 2023, 6:11 am
World’s oldest known person, French nun who remembered World War I, dies aged 118
Lucile Randon joined Christian order at age of 41, worked until 108, said ‘only the good Lord knows’ the secret to her longevity
By Sandra Laffont
Illustrative: Dozens of Jewish Holocaust survivors wear Tefilin and the Tallit prayer shawl as they participate in a group bar-mitzvah ceremony, normally done at the age of 13, on May 2, 2016, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 5, 2019, 11:58 pm
Holocaust survivors less healthy but outlive their peers by 7 years, study finds
Israeli researchers attribute ‘paradoxical’ findings to genetics and to resilience as a result of experiencing Nazi atrocities
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
This undated photo made available by Julius Nielsen on August 11, 2016 shows a Greenland shark slowly swimming away from a boat, returning to the deep and cold waters of the Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland during a tag-and-release program in Norway and Greenland. (Julius Nielsen via AP)
August 12, 2016, 5:52 am
Greenland shark is oldest living animal with backbone
Novel dating technique puts age of recently deceased 16-footer at 392 years
By Seth Borenstein
Nir Barzilai hopes to start his first drug trial in a year (Courtesy)
December 22, 2015, 3:28 pm
Want to live till 120? This professor works on drugs that could get you close
In what could be a medical revolution, Dr. Nir Barzilai and colleagues are working with the FDA to assess drugs that target aging, not just a particular disease
By Simona Weinglass
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