Most drugs aimed at Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease try to slow the damage. A small team at Japan’s Shibaura Institute of Technology is asking a different question: what if you could coax the ...

An 80-year-old woman living with advanced dementia experienced temporary improvement in several cognitive functions after ...

Scientists at Kyoto University's Institute for Cell-Material Sciences have discovered a novel cluster compound that could prove useful as a catalyst. Compounds, called polyoxometalates, contain a ...

Tire rubber contains antioxidant chemicals, most notably 6PPD and DPPD, that are released into the air as tiny particles ...

With ever-increasing life expectancy comes the challenge of treating age-related disorders such as osteoporosis. Although there are effective drugs for treating this metabolic bone disease, they can ...

Coffee, that beverage without which many do not feel fully awake, appears to be related to favorable changes in cellular aging, according to recent research that analyzed molecular biomarkers ...