Category: Events
- Category: COVID-19
A new test which could detect whether people who have had COVID-19 are still infectious is under development, thanks to funding from Animal Free Research UK. The charity has donated £52,000 to Professor Lorna Harries at the University of Exeter, who is developing a test that will aim to detect how much active virus an
- Category: COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the nation and the world, the role that geroscience may play in boosting immunity in older adults and lessening the severity of age-related diseases holds promise.
Professor Arne Akbar from University College London will address the vulnerability of the elderly to COVID-19 in a webinar organised by the British Society of Immunology. In the webinar he will discuss the immune changes that occur during ageing, resulting in the severe effect COVID-19 has in older individuals. He will discuss current hypotheses based on
- Category: Policy
Lynne Cox, Trustee of the BSRA, has been acting as scientific advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity, and has now authored a key paper in the APPG major report ‘The Health of the Nation – a Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives’ (https://appg-longevity.org/events-publications – key paper I pp 72-80). This was report was launched on 12th
- Category: Policy
The UK government recognises the importance that ageing has on society, setting an ambitious target for the coming years – the aim is to increase the time we spend healthy as we get old by at least five years by 2035. This is a great but very ambitious goal – so how do we achieve