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William Mair

@willmair.bsky.social

Professor of Molecular Metabolism at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Director Harvard Chan Healthy Aging Initiative. Studies metabolic flexibility and healthy aging. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/william-b-mair/

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🚨The final programme for #FusionAging25 is now live
⬇️Check out our website to view the short talks that will be joining our invited speaker line-up - it is shaping up to be a fantastic 4 days!

πŸ—“οΈFinal Poster & Reg Deadline: 07 Aug 2025
πŸ”— bit.ly/3FR0Z3E
#FusionAgingResearch

16.06.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m still annoyed that I didn’t think to use wrm then Martin Denzel got it

13.05.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research Announces the Addition of Leading Scientists Driving Breakthroughs in Aging Research /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (AHLR, "the Academy"), has announced the induction of 24 distinguished scientists whose...

Looking forward to joining this great group of colleagues and helping to promote Geroscience research, funding and translation

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

13.05.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fancy visiting Malta to hear all the newest research on all things #Aging?
Register today & submit an abstract to join Henri, Linda, @willmair.bsky.social and our fantastic speaker lineup! β˜€οΈ#FusionAging25
πŸ“…Early Bird & Talk Deadline: 24 April 2025
πŸ”—Conference Website: bit.ly/4i8RhGE

10.04.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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5 Science-Backed Longevity β€˜Hacks’ That Don’t Cost a Fortune You don’t need a $40,000 gym membership to live a longer, healthier life.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/w...

29.04.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Excited to join the editorial board of @plosbiology.bsky.social, the #PLOS flagship journal in the Life Sciences. Always loved this journal since publishing in it way back in 2005 and writing article summaries for it as a postdoc. @plosbiology.bsky.social supports selective, equitable #OpenScience

04.12.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CBC Quirks and Quarks episode on human lifespan limits with Jay Olshansky and a little of me: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

29.11.2024 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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3 Simple Rules to Beat the Downsides of Aging While we wait for scientists to come up with a miracle pill, we can take matters into our own hands with easy steps to ensure that life in old age isn’t also the end of living well.

It’s like they read your post: www.wired.com/story/three-...

27.11.2024 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I liked this one too:

26.11.2024 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Splicing factor 1 modulates dietary restriction and TORC1 pathway longevity in C. elegans - Nature Precursor mRNA splicing homeostasis is a biomarker and predictor of life expectancy in Caenorhabditis elegans and defects in global pre-mRNA splicing associated with age are reduced by dietary restric...

I mean I’d def add Heintz et al to that list, cracking paper, awesome PI ;). www.nature.com/articles/nat...

26.11.2024 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Redefining age-based screening and diagnostic guidelines: an opportunity for biological aging clocks in clinical medicine? Clinicians often note that patients seem older or younger than their stated age to convey their appraisal of a patient's biological or physiological age and subsequent disease risks. Developments in a...

πŸ¦‹ reposting of a commentry I wrote with the excellent Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem - how accurate biological aging clocks could save lives and money in the short-term www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

26.11.2024 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

McCay 1935

24.11.2024 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Endogenous mitochondrial NAD(P)H fluorescence can predict lifespan - Communications Biology Endogenous mitochondrial NAD(P)H fluorescence enables label-free and subcellular resolution quantification of aging, prediction of remaining lifespan and tracking of age-dependent changes to mitochond...

Cool new work from the lab by @chris-morrow.bsky.social: Often we think of auto-fluorescence as a hindrance to experiments - but endogenous metabolites have specific fluorescence we can use to determine the metabolic state of the cell - and predict lifespan.. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

22.11.2024 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
Fusion Home Our scientific research conferences support the development of physical, medical and life sciences, providing a powerful platform that encourages discussion and collaboration in luxury locations acros...

Learn about the latest biology of aging research in a beautiful setting! Mark your calendars for the 5th Interventions in Aging Conference, Oct 5-7 2025, Malta. Some great speakers and more coming soon! www.fusion-conferences.com/conference/181 #FusionAging25

19.11.2024 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Biology of Aging | Marine Biological Laboratory The MBL Biology of Aging Advanced Research Training Summer Course is an immersive research-based course designed to teach fundamental concepts, outstanding open research questions, and cutting-edge ex...

Watch this space: @biologyofaging.bsky.social course at @mblscience.bsky.social will return in 2025! More to follow - www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

19.11.2024 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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