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Mice In Laboratories Unlocking New Secrets of the Fountain of Youth

Sunday, January 15, 2012

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Mice In Laboratories Unlocking New Secrets of the Fountain of Youth

Mice tend to end up their life being prototypes of medical research. We should note that mice represent 50 percent of the laboratory animals used for experiment and thus the prime source of testing for modern medicine. Recently, a group of resear ...

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Will Our Generation Live to 150 Years?

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Will Our Generation Live to 150 Years?

There is a group of researchers suggesting that people can live beyond the age of 150 years. This is something that has not been realized other than in tales from the Old Testament. The highest recorded longevity is for a woman who died in Franc ...

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African People on HIV Drugs Can Expect to live A Normal Lifespan

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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African People on HIV Drugs Can Expect to live A Normal Lifespan

Recently, on the world conference on AIDS medicine held in Rome, it was announced that Africans on HIV drugs can expect to have a more-or-less normal lifespan. Yet, women suffering from AIDS are expected to outlive men. This was the result of the wor ...

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Similar Origin of Stem Cells & Cancer Cells

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Similar Origin of Stem Cells & Cancer Cells

Recently, US scientists revealed that oncogenes can transform typical cells into stem-alike cells. This does thereby give us new insight on how to better and more safely treat diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis. Researchers from three diffe ...

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Scientists Boast First Successful Transformation of Human Skin Cells to Functional Neurons

Friday, June 24, 2011

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Scientists Boast First Successful Transformation of Human Skin Cells to Functional Neurons

As scientists embark in a quest to pursue breakthroughs in stem cell therapy, another discovery is made, leading them a step closer to their ultimate goal. A thriving achievement was made by Stanford University’s Marius Wernig and his group as they ...

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Could Adult Stem Cells Mean No More Aging?

Friday, February 18, 2011

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Could Adult Stem Cells Mean No More Aging?

There is much controversy surrounding the use of stem cells for various therapeutic procedures however, perhaps the answer is utilizing adult stem cells rather than the stormy embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells are quite possibly the future of medicine ...

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Could Alzheimer’s Disease Be An Odd Sort Of Cancer Of The Brain?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Could Alzheimer’s Disease Be An Odd Sort Of Cancer Of The Brain?

Medical investigator Peter Davies started his research into Alzheimer’s disease decades ago in the seventies prior to the true serious nature of the illness actually being evident. When humanity reaches the year 2030 about seven and a half million U.S. c ...

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There is an Emergency Backup Plan for a Failing Immune System

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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There is an Emergency Backup Plan for a Failing Immune System

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in collaboration with Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science provides interesting insight on a backup plan of our immune system. It was identified that the human immune system has a b ...

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Reversing Aging Closer Than We Think – A Harvard Study on Mice Proves The Possibility

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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Reversing Aging Closer Than We Think – A Harvard Study on Mice Proves The Possibility

Some researchers at the Harvard Medical School has found a way to turn-back the aging process in mice. They are now trying to enhance the therapy so that it can be applied for human as well. The lead author of the study Ronald DePinho and with his team  ...

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Death A Current Unbeatable Foe But Science is Slowly Progressing

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Death A Current Unbeatable Foe But Science is Slowly Progressing

Living longer is often about attitude. Having an optimistic view on the world will help one to live a brighter life. For instance, while reading the newspaper people should omit the obituary pages and emphasis on the funniest pages. The very fact that  ...

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