Without access to luxury longevity clinics or experimental anti-aging therapies, many Brazilians are routinely living to 100, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veronica Forstner is so old that she lives in the same Minnesota nursing home as her son-in-law. She's so old that her children ...

More and more people are living past age 100 and it’s all about healthy living— and genetics. The Boston University School of Medicine New England Centenarian Study (NECS) has the largest collection ...

Supercentenarians are rare people who have reached the age of 110 and remain fit. Amazingly, many of them never get sick, despite having some bad health habits in some cases. Scientists say it all ...

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The ironically named Robert Young spends an inordinate amount of time with the very old. Young, 31, a Georgia State University student, researches supercentenarians — people 110 and older — for the ...

James Clement, a self-described “citizen-scientist,” has collected blood, skin and saliva samples from individuals aged 110-plus in 14 states and seven countries during the past six years, The New ...

The first-ever published whole-genome sequences of not just one, but two supercentenarians, aged more than 114 years, reveal that both unusual and common genetic phenomena contribute to the genetic ...

Scientists have used single-cell RNA analysis to find that supercentenarians -- meaning people over the age of 110 -- have an excess of a type of immune cell called cytotoxic CD4 T-cells. Scientists ...

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An Irish woman who lived to 111, another who had a 97-year career and a supercentenarian poet. Why aren't these incredible lives remembered and what would be a fitting way to honor them? From an early ...