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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 22d

Our next community seminar is on Wed, Oct 1. We will be talking about what evolutionary biology can tell us about our bodies. By exploring the past and looking at different species, we can shed light on the present and future of our health.
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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 26d

Thanks to all for a great 2025 NIA Summer Training Course this week at Buck! With a brilliant group of trainers, inspiring faculty talks, panel discussions, paint night, we all had a blast! Each one of you trainees are poised to shape the future of aging research!

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 28d

NIA Summer Training Course at Buck is off to a great start - terrific lectures from Francesca Duncan and Tony Wyss-Coray, along with mentoring panel discussions and a lot more fun in courtyard!

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · 29d

Amazing new project led by Buck's Research Assistant Professor James Yurkovich! Check it out!!

Vangelis Simeonidis @vangos.bsky.social · 29d

The project I am working on at the @buckinstitute.org: SIMBA, a digital twin of E. coli able to predict microbial behavior with unprecedented accuracy.

Check out our new video!

#DARPA #SyntheticBiology #AI #Microbiology #SIMBA #Biomanufacturing #Ecoli

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Project SIMBA: Simulating Microbial Behavior

YouTube video by Buck Institute for Research on Aging

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Sep 3

Another packed house today for Dr John Newman’s (@GeriSciDoc.bsky.social) talk on How to Be Your Own Geriatrician. To register for our upcoming seminar: How Did Our Bodies End Up This Way on Oct 1: buckinstitute.org/events/lblseminars

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 29

Is lifelong learning the key to keeping your brain healthy? Check out our CEO Eric Verdin’s latest monthly column in Marin Magazine. issuu.com/270media/doc...

Marin Magazine September 2025

Thought-provoking stories, profiles of Marin personalities, journeys to destinations near and far — plus the best places to dine, shop, play, and enjoy Marin County and beyond — Marin Magazine is the

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 29

Is brain/gut axis a superhighway for immune response to #Alzheimers? Study in @cellpress.bsky.social shows immune cells use that route in mouse models. Feeding animals high fiber diet reduced AD-related frailty. Congrats Dr. Winer, Dr. Makhijani, & Dr. Andersen
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The gut immune system is altered in mouse model of Alzheimer’s, providing a new target for therapeutics

Feeding the animals a high fiber diet reduced Alzheimer’s-related frailty including tremor.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 21

Our CEO Eric Verdin is now a regular contributor to Marin Magazine! His monthly “Science For You” column provides science-based, concrete steps we can all take to increase our healthspan. This first column includes his personal backstory. www.buckinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...

How to live better longer

Our CEO Eric Verdin is now a regular contributor to Marin Magazine! His monthly “Science For You” column provides science-based, concrete steps we can all take to increase our healthspan. This first c...

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 18

Early #puberty and early childbirth may come with a cost. Study in @elife.bsky.social shows reproductive timing can accelerate aging and disease, quadrupling the risk of severe metabolic disorders. Congrats @pkapahi.bsky.social www.buckinstitute.org/news/early-p...

Early puberty and early childbirth may come with a cost

Reproductive timing can accelerate aging and disease

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 6

Another full house this morning at this month’s seminar. James Yurkovich, PhD is leading an effort to understand how the complex systems that make up our body change throughout the day by using an array of technologies and AI to capture an individuals’ data throughout multiple days

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 5

Study in @pnas.org highlights small molecule that boosts autophagy, our cells’ cleanup system. AA-20 reduces fat & protein buildup in conserved fashion, extending health/lifespan in worms, w/out blocking mTOR. Congrats to the Handen and Kelly labs! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Autophagy activator AA-20 improves proteostasis and extends Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan | PNAS

The degradation of cellular components through autophagy is essential for longevity and healthy aging. However, autophagy function decreases with a...

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Aug 4

Great conversation with Buck CEO Eric Verdin on The Drive. He and Peter Attia talk about #aging and the #immunesystem, #metabolism, #NAD and much – including Eric’s own experience with #GLP1 drugs peterattiamd.com/ericverdin/

#359 ‒ How metabolic and immune system dysfunction drive the aging process, the role of NAD, promising interventions, aging clocks, and more | Eric Verdin, M.D.

“The ovary and the thymus. We call them the canary in the coal mine.” —Eric Verdin

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jul 25

Don’t miss our CEO Eric Verdin’s monthly column in Marin Magazine! The latest is all about how your social life can boost your longevity! marinmagazine.com/health/healt...

From the Buck Institute: The Secret to a Longer Life? It’s Not in a Bottle. It’s in a Conversation

The Buck Institute highlights the importance of meaningful connections for enhancing our healthspan and well-being.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jul 22

Seats are selling fast! Register for our upcoming seminar on Wed, Aug 6. Find out how an array of technologies and AI, capturing an individuals’ data, can explain our health and longevity. www.buckinstitute.org/events/lblse...

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jul 21

A pleasure to be interviewed by David Rubenstein for his new Bloomberg TV show on longevity. We’ll let you know when we have an air date!

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jul 18

Seats are selling fast! Register for our upcoming seminar on Wed, Aug 6. Find out how an array of technologies and AI, capturing an individuals’ data, can explain our health and longevity.
www.buckinstitute.org/events/lblse...

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jul 2

Our first seminar of new season of our Live Better Longer Community Seminar series today! Great talk by Dr Brianna Stubbs, the Co-Dir of our Clinical Research Unit at Buck. She’s expert in exogenous ketone metabolism and its implications for performance, resilience & healthspan.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 30

Congratulations to our CEO, Eric Verdin, Dobri Kiprov and Circulate Health for receiving the award for the most significant therapeutic advance in the science of aging at the recent #LongevityDocs meeting in Cannes.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 30

Neurons burn #sugar differently. The discovery from the Kapahi lab could save the brain. Study in Nature Metabolism
provides new approach in #Alzheimers research and could explain why #GLP1 drugs show promise against #dementia buckinstitute.org/news/neurons...
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Neurons burn sugar differently. The discovery could save the brain.

In addition to a new approach in Alzheimer’s research, study from Buck Institute could explain why GLP-1 drugs show promise against dementia.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 30

Neurons burn #sugar differently. The discovery from the Kapahi lab could save the brain. Study in Nature Metabolism provides new approach in #Alzheimers research and could explain why #GLP1 drugs show promise against #dementia www.buckinstitute.org/news/neurons...
@kapahi_pankaj @KapahiLab

Neurons burn sugar differently. The discovery could save the brain.

In addition to a new approach in Alzheimer’s research, study from Buck Institute could explain why GLP-1 drugs show promise against dementia.

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 28

Our CEO, Eric Verdin was on a panel at the 28th annual @milkeninstitute Global Conference. The Panel focused on “The Roadmap to Longevity,“ addressing the latest scientific breakthroughs and discussed what’s on the horizon in the quest to live to 100 in good health. #MIGlobal

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 27

Check out the July edition of @MarinMagazine! Our CEO, Eric Verdin's first column "How to Live Better Longer" is on Page 22 and go to Page 70 to use the QR code to register for our upcoming seminar next week! issuu.com/270media/doc...

Marin Magazine July 2025

Thought-provoking stories, profiles of Marin personalities, journeys to destinations near and far — plus the best places to dine, shop, play, and enjoy Marin County and beyond — Marin Magazine is the

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 27

World’s leading aging researchers have united to accelerate breakthroughs in longevity. Members of Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (including Buck’s Eric Verdin and Gordon Lithgow) describe efforts to accelerate promise of #geroscience @NatureAging www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Accelerating the promise of geroscience through The Academy of Health & Lifespan Research - Nature Aging

Nature Aging - Accelerating the promise of geroscience through The Academy of Health & Lifespan Research

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 24

It’s summer. #Drink up (water please)! Our #thirst mechanisms decline with age. #Dehydration can be deadly. A project at the Buck is focused on intervening where those processes begin – in the brain. Down a glass of #water while you read our new blog post. www.buckinstitute.org/blog/drink-u...

Drink up! (Water please)

Dehydration is a major risk factor for bad things in older adults – including death

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The Buck Institute for Research on Aging @buckinstitute.org · Jun 16

Get the scoop on our clinical trials at our July 2 seminar with Dr. Brianna Stubbs. She’ll talk about “intrinsic capacity.” It’s a new way of looking at aging and something you should discuss with your doctor. She’ll talk about ketogenic diets too! www.buckinstitute.org/events/lblse...

Live Better Longer Community Seminar Series

July 2, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm - The Buck Institute is hosting in-person (with zoom option) monthly conversations with geroscience experts about how people can live longer, healthier lives. Speake...

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