Senior Journal: Successful study of anti-aging drug with monkeys wins new grant

February 7, 2016

The search for eternal youth marches on with a new grant from the National Institute on Aging for work to continue on the effects of the drug rapamycin on the lifespan and healthy aging of middle aged marmoset monkeys. The grant comes on the heels of a study with the animals showing the anti-aging drug […]

In the quest to make aging healthier, Barshop Institute gains 2 top NIA center grants

August 3, 2015

The Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is getting a multimillion-dollar grant to expand studies on aging and how to improve health throughout life.

Longer-lived rodents benefit from more of protein’s signals

March 17, 2015

The same beneficial protein is activated when we eat steamed broccoli

Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation provides $2 million for study of cellular events that precede Alzheimer’s

February 4, 2015

Mouse model may show whether brain, halfway to disease, can be aided

Griffith studies link between aging, autoimmune disease

February 3, 2015

Ann V. Griffith, Ph.D., one of the newest members of the faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is delving into why the appearance of autoimmune disease is linked with aging.

Factor in naked mole rat’s cells enhances protein integrity

September 20, 2014

Barshop Institute finding is clue of how African rodent defies aging