Thriving on fat

Mortality by degrees

UNITED NATIONS

The winter of content

Organisations bring some cheer to India's elderly

How ageing affects the way we make decisions

The saying goes, with age comes wisdom, but is that really true?

Remedy for osteoporosis

Wings clipped by age

Aging cells

The biochemistry of growing old

Research looks into the DNA factor acting as a stimulant for aging

INDIA

Lord of the fIies

Thefruitflies seem to live longer on a poor diet. Why?

Recipe for long life

If you want to live longer, you may have to go hungry

Growing old in the wild

The conventional belief is that animals don't live into old age, but succumb much earlier to "unnatural" causes. Recent research, however, …

Wheelchair-cum-bed

CHINA

Forever young

DNAs: the key to perpetual youth

Elixir of youth

It is blueberries

Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?

A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …

India, China share global burden of mental illnesses

The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders

Here’s what people in their 90s really think about death

Death was part of life for many of the older people who often said they were taking each day as it comes and not worrying too much about tomorrow

Slow down, ageing cells

We can live healthy lives well into our hundreds, science claims, but is ageing really a disease that can be cured? Scientist are now looking at …

Not too many people

Demographers say world population will decline and one-fifth of it would be above 50 years by 2050

Armed for Alzheimer's

Telomerases Nobel tale

Award-winning enzyme writes the fate of ones life

Athlete at 70?

It might be possible, requires triggering the muscle stem cells