By Traci Parker  Health Extension is a piece of the puzzle in educating young minds in STEM. Silicon Valley is famous as a place for entrepreneurs to make a go of it, but I had no idea it could also…

by Traci Parker Wondrous. Illuminating. Enlightening.      Cambridge, Queens College, is like a snapshot from the past, which contains some of brightest minds in the scientific community. A perfect setting for the SENS6 conference. It was awesome to see…

People are concerned with improving their diets, optimizing their exercise, tuning their supplements.  I am often asked, due to my central role in Health Extension, for health advice, for speaking slots, or for a chance to promote this or that…

(Summary of a session of the same title presented by Joe Betts-LaCroix at SciFOO 2013) Thesis: Most healthcare money treats age-related diseases.  Aging is the single biggest risk factor for these diseases.  But spending on the biochemistry of aging is less…

The first weekend of March about 600 people occupied a lovely space on Pine Street in Long Beach and participated in a conference affectionately known as BIL (as in TED’s counterpart). Among those people were about a dozen or so…

The Health Extension Blog’s purpose in life (hopefully a really long and healthy one) is to engage members within and outside our community with accessible and interesting content about longevity. We are actively seeking blog proposals. If you would like…

To get the right answers you must ask the right questions. Understanding public opinions on longevity is crucial to obtaining a critical mass of funding and support for research on aging therapies. Past survey work suggested that most people do…