Finalist Teams Awarded $1 Million in XPrize Healthspan Contest to Transform Healthy Aging

The XPrize Healthspan—which will split $101 million among teams developing therapeutics to restore muscle, cognitive, and immune function in older adults—has named 10 teams receiving $1 million each.

(XPrize announced the finalists for its XPrize Healthspan competition | XPrize)

The XPrize Healthspan competition has named its top 20 finalist groups that will submit their aging intervention therapies for human trial testing.

Aging &amp; Longevity

How to Slow Aging: 7 Tips from a Danish Aging Expert

Danish aging expert Morten Scheibye-Knudsen shares seven ways to slow aging, including taking NR (nicotinamide riboside) and the diabetes medication metformin.

(Professor Morten Scheibye-Knudsen | BBC Science Focus)

Danish aging expert Morten Scheibye-Knudsen does things like taking NR and metformin to slow his biological aging

Cellular reprogramming, an innovative age-reversal technology, stimulates the regeneration of heart cells after a heart attack in mice. 

Cardiovascular

Advanced Alzheimer’s Can Be Reversed With NAD+ Restoration, Study Shows in Mice

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have shown that late-stage neurodegeneration may be biologically reversible, at least in the right conditions, in mice.

(Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland 19)

Brain &amp; Neurons

Approved Human Study Sets Up Pivotal Test for Aging Theory from Harvard’s David Sinclair

In a major proving ground test for the longevity field, the FDA has given its approval for a human trial for a gene therapy attempting a near-total rejuvenating reset of cells.

(David Sinclair, Michael Ringel, Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson, and Jerry McLaughlin of Life Biosciences | Longevity.technology)

The FDA has greenlighted Life Biosciences’ first human trial testing whether their gene therapy can confer a near-total rejuvenating reset of cells.

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10 Finalist Teams Awarded $1 Million in XPrize Healthspan Contest to Transform Healthy Aging

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Advanced Alzheimer’s Can Be Reversed With NAD+ Restoration, Study Shows in Mice

FDA Greenlights Life Biosciences’ Human Study, Setting Up Pivotal Test for Aging Theory from Harvard’s David Sinclair