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Longevity and lifespan are a real hot topic right now. The amount of interest in the field has been increasing significantly and several labs are cranking out exciting new research. However, there is a lot of data out there and it can be tricky to interpret promising data from the noise. In response to this, a few researchers came together and put out a preprint on how to best gauge the quality of longevity interventions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1568163724003301

They argue in favor of choosing long lived controls, in this case lab mice, as a better marker for the robustness of any longevity intervention and state…

“In the absence of independent replication, a putative mouse longevity intervention should only be considered with high confidence when control lifespans are close to 900 days or if the final lifespan of the treated group is considerably above 900 days.”

This is the 900-day rule. Now, why is this important? Many studies in longevity researc

Hi, all!

Excited to see this community grow. Still figuring out Lemmy, so thanks for bearing with us. I want posts to have some form of identifier for ease in finding things so lets start every post with a tag before the title. Here are a few tag rules for now.

TAGS

• [QUESTION] - for posts directly asking input from the community.
• [PAPER] - for posts about specific papers
• [REVIEW] - for posts reviewing scientific literature, make sure to cite all papers discussed
• [DISCUSSION] - for a more general post around any given topic or multiple topics

FORMAT

If none of the tags seem to fit, a descriptive title will suffice.

Thanks!