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Hier der Podcast: mein Gespräch über »Altersuhren«, Fadenwürmer, den Traum von der ewigen Jugend und die richtige Medizin youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ey...

Heute im @spektrum.de der Wissenschaft: mein Gespräch über »Altersuhren«, Fadenwürmer, den Traum von der ewigen Jugend und die richtige Medizin www.spektrum.de/news/longevi...

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 and happy new year 🎆🎈🎊 with all the best wishes for a great 2026

🚀 Now out in print: AGE DECELERATION AND REVERSAL GENE PATTERNS IN DAUER DIAPAUSE. How we can learn from nature of to slow aging and rejuvenate. Big congrats to Khrystyna Totska, João Barata, Walter Sandt, and @meyerdavid.bsky.social! @cecad.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was a great start of the @erc.europa.eu Synergy funded @batprotect.bsky.social BATPROTECT workshop @cecad.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social in Cologne

🔥🔥🔥Now out in print: how do germ cells instruct the soma and how does the soma impact inheritance? Together with Shoma Ishikawa we provide a comprehensive overview of The Somatic Impact on Inheritance and the Germline Control of the Soma - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

It's a great pleasure to introduce the RACE ERA Chair Initiative for Establishing a Research and Innovation Program of Excellence on Ageing and Longevity at the University of Crete with @garinis.bsky.social

🧬🧬🧬Targeting Genome Stability to Mitigate Human Aging and Disease - read now our comprehensive review article written with Debbie Toiber how we can target the most fundamental mechanisms of aging and cancer. @annualreviews.bsky.social 🔗 go.shr.lc/3JohYMp

🚨Check out this new study from our Research Unit member @bjornschumacher.bsky.social on gene expression patterns linked to age deceleration and rejuvenation during Dauer Diapause. Congratulations! 🎉

📢 Check out this new paper by our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social, @meyerdh.bsky.social and Walter Sandt: Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause! Nature shows us how aging can slow—and even reverse—at the whole-organism level.

🚀 🚀 🚀 Our latest paper is out now: Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause. We can learn from nature how aging of a whole organism with completely differentiated tissues can be slowed and how that organism can be completely rejuvenated. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Apply now for a fully funded #PhD position at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research and become part of our vibrant #AgingResearch commmuny. 🗓️ Deadline: November 3, 2025. ℹ️ More info: www.ageing-grad-school.de 📣 Spread the news!

What Jane Goodall Taught Us About Living a Long Life The scientist, who died at 91 on Wednesday, was a model for healthy aging. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

Now out in print: Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair. New perspectives how we could tackle cancer and aging at their mechanistic root cause: I www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing retreat of the @dfg.de Research Unit FOR5504 on the Physiological Causes and Consequences of Genome Instability and the Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease with keynotes by @apoetsch.bsky.social and @garinis.bsky.social

It was great fun speaking with Debbie Toiber and @barakrotblat.bsky.social on my path to science and why studying aging is so important to me. open.spotify.com/episode/2brg...

This review of our @crc1678.bsky.social member @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social is greatly summarizing fundamentals of the molecular biology of aging. What causes aging? Read the answer!

Aging by the clock and yet without a program [perspective by David Meyer, Alexei Maklakov & Björn Schumacher] www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🔥🔥🔥Out now: our Perspectives article in @nataging.nature.com outlining how aging is driven by molecular damage leading to increasing molecular noise whose quantification could track aging with the precision of a clock @meyerdh.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

👵🏻⏰👴🏻 Is aging a programmed process? Check out this perspective article in Nature Aging by our two #CRC1678 members @meyerdh.bsky.social and @bjornschumacher.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🥳

🕰️ Is aging driven by a programmed/programmatic mechanism, or by the unavoidable burden of imperfect maintenance? Our perspective argues that aging reflects finite maintenance and reduced evolutionary pressure🧵🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43... @bjornschumacher.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social

Registration open now! Join us for the most exciting Gordon Research Conferences on Systems Aging in 2026. Super exciting program with outstanding speakers from across the entire field. Ample opportunity to discuss your science with leaders in the Systems Aging Feld. www.grc.org/systems-agin...

🔥🔥🔥 Read now our latest article: The Somatic Impact on Inheritance and the Germline Control of the Soma | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

mtor and DNA damage in kidney health 👇

🔥🔥🔥Check out our latest paper on the kidney, wonderful collaboration with Fabian Braun & Christine Kurschat @cecad.bsky.social. Read now: JCI Insight - Loss of genome maintenance is linked to mTOR complex 1 signaling and accelerates podocyte damage insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

Register now for the 7th German-French DNA Repair Meeting, which will take place at the Campus Pierre et Marie Curie of Sorbonne University in Paris, France, from 5–7 November 2025. premc.org/dnarepair202...

Paradigmenwechsel in der Medizin, um gesunde Lebenszeit verlängern www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191...

Gesundes Altern ermöglichen: Leopoldina-Diskussionspapier empfiehlt Umdenken in Forschung und Medizin nachrichten.idw-online.de/pressrelease...

Enabling healthy ageing: @leopoldina.org discussion paper recommends shift in focus in research and medicine. We are proposing a Health-Extending Medicine in an Aging Society and define Prospects for Medical Research and Practice www.leopoldina.org/en/press-1/p...

Gesundes Altern ermöglichen: Leopoldina-Diskussionspapier empfiehlt Umdenken in Forschung und Medizin. Hier sind die Ergebnisse unserer Diskussionen bei der @leopoldina.org für eine neue Medizin in einer alternden Gesellschaft. Lebenslange Gesundheit und Prävention ist erreichbar.

Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/eqQ7R This new Perspective discusses approaches to pharmacologically mitigate the adverse effects of DNA damage to prevent mutation-driven cancers and mitigate age-related degenerative diseases

www.nature.com/articles/s41... massive review from @bjornschumacher.bsky.social & team! congratulations all.

🚀 Supercharging DNA repair in ageing! Check out the latest article in Nature Reviews in Drug Discovery @natureportfolio.nature.com, featuring contributions from our CRC 1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and Arturo Bujarrabal. 🧬

Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair, read now our latest article in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Reviews in Drug Discovery. Arturo Bujarrabal @garinis.bsky.social Paul Robbins Jan Vijg Free access to the article here: rdcu.be/eqK9r

The solution: Preprint your paper

Very excited about my visit to the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine to give a seminar on genome stability in aging and meeting with J. Ross Chapman and KJ Patel talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1b7...

GIMM Fest | Aging and Longevity: Registrations open now! September 4-6 2025, Portugal, Lisbon. The brand new Gulbenkian Institute, launching – the very first GIMM Festival – "Aging and Longevity" to explore the future of aging through science. gimm.pt/gimm-festival/

Register now: application deadline for the 7th 🇩🇪German-🇫🇷French 🧬DNA Repair Meeting, taking place in Paris from November 5 to 7, 2025, is fast approaching. To submit applications and for full event details, please go to the website: 👉 lnkd.in/dfJVjYFQ

Great Minerva workshop on Biology of Healthy Aging by BIU and @cecad.bsky.social with Keynotes by Jan Hoeijmakers, Rafa de Cabo, @nirbarzilaimd.bsky.social and @garinis.bsky.social and the Cohen, @spanier55.bsky.social, @beyerlab.bsky.social, @eitanokun.bsky.social, Korenblit, Moran labs

How young are you really? 🧬CRC1678 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social dives into the fascinating world of aging research as a guest on the WDR 5 Quarks Science Podcast. #AgingResearch #SciencePodcast

Wie jung bist du wirklich? Die Wissenschaft vom Alter Sehr schöne Zuschauergespräche in der Sendung WDR 5 Quarks - Wissenschaft und mehr hier zum Nachhören. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

A very warm welcome to our new @ahlresearch.bsky.social Academy for Health & Lifespan Research members from around the world. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Absolutely thrilled to join the @gimmfoundation.bsky.social GIMM Festival 2025 in Lisbon at the Pavilhão Portugal from 4-6 September 2025. What questions do we need to ask to build a unifying theory of aging? Join a great lineup of speakers to discuss concepts of the biology gimm.pt/gimm-festiva...

Excellent short recap about DNA damage accumulation as a primary driver of aging and how this is measured by agin clocks by @bjornschumacher.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hier könnt ihr mein Gespräch in Alessandro Falcone's Podcast Modern Medicine hören: Altersforscher klärt auf: Können wir unsere biologische Uhr zurückdrehen... youtu.be/GsHEJwgG6k4?... via @YouTube

Some cover art I made for a great paper about the body’s clock and biological aging! #SciArt

In the U.S., recognition of the value of basic science and biomedical research is declining. Policymakers must act to reverse this trend and sustain the support needed to fuel innovation. Ongoing funding cuts risk derailing breakthroughs and weakening U.S. leadership in medical science.

🚀 Two of our CRC1678 members, @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social, published a @naturemedicine.bsky.social Correspondence on stochasticity in aging and age prediction arguing that aging clocks reflect aging mechanisms 👴⏱️👵. Check it out! #CRC1678 #AgingResearch #NatureMedicine

🔥🔥🔥The stochasticity of biological aging: Read now our Correspondence in @naturemedicine.bsky.social to clarify the roles of stochasticity in aging and in age prediction. We argue that aging clocks are reflecting the very mechanisms of aging. @meyerdh.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social rdcu.be/ejQv7