About AgingNexus
Built by scientists and engineers —
for the people advancing the science of aging.
AgingNexus is designed, built, and used by working scientists and engineers who are deep in the research community and in medicine. We built the tool we wanted for our own work: one rigorous, well-organized place where the evidence on aging and its reversal can actually be found, read, cited, and debated.
Why it exists
The science of aging is moving fast and scattered across thousands of journals, preprint servers, trial registries, and government reports. Finding the relevant evidence — and trusting its provenance — costs researchers hours every week. Poor categorization is the single biggest barrier between a question and the paper that answers it.
AgingNexus fixes that. We aggregate trusted, openly-licensed research, organize it around the biological hallmarks of aging, and make it searchable by keyword, by facet, and by meaning.
Who builds it
This is not a marketing project dressed up in lab coats. AgingNexus is built and maintained by practicing scientists and engineers — people who publish, who run experiments, and who work alongside clinicians in medicine. The standards here are the standards we hold our own work to: every record carries its provenance and license, every claim is traceable to a source, and the categorization is the one a domain expert would actually use.
- Built by
Working research scientists & engineers
- Grounded in
The research community & clinical medicine
- Held to
Peer-review-grade rigor & provenance
How we keep it rigorous & legal
We aggregate only from official open scholarly sources and public records. We always store the citation, abstract, and a link to the original. We store full text only where the license explicitly allows it — never rehosting paywalled work. Contributions can be made anonymously and are labeled as unverifiable, so the community can share freely while readers judge the evidence on its merits.
Open by default
Reading, browsing, searching, contributing, and discussion are free. AgingNexus is an open community first — a place for people across the world to build something together that no single lab could. AI-assisted synthesis is available to signed-in members on a transparent, pay-only-for-the-tokens-you-use basis.
Frequently asked questions
Who is AgingNexus for?
Working scientists, engineers, clinicians, and serious independent researchers. It is science-oriented by design. Everyone is welcome to read and contribute, but the bar for rigor is set for professionals.
Where does the research come from, and is it copyright-safe?
We aggregate only from official open scholarly sources — OpenAlex, Europe PMC, PubMed/PMC Open Access, bioRxiv/medRxiv, ClinicalTrials.gov — plus public-domain government works. We always store metadata, the abstract, and a link with an accurate citation. We store full text only when the license explicitly permits it (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, or U.S. government public domain); otherwise we show the abstract and link to the source. Every record displays its provenance and license.
Can I contribute anonymously?
Yes. You can post findings, datasets, and lab results under your name or anonymously. Anonymous contributions are clearly labeled as unverifiable — we do not store your identity on them — so you can share without legal worry while readers weigh the evidence accordingly.
Why do the AI tools cost credits when everything else is free?
Reading, searching, browsing, contributing, and discussion are free forever. The AI tools call a large language model that costs us money per token, so they are metered: you pre-load credits and pay the pass-through token cost plus a small margin for our infrastructure. No subscription, no minimum.