The RAND Corporation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London recently published the results from a novel study they collaborated on that revealed how aging Americans lack the same health as their British equals, but they survive as long as or longer than their British contemporaries. Investigators discovered how Americans who were fifty five [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 12, 2010
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Since humans first looked at each other, they have made it their business to find a means of regaining or keeping their youth for as long as they possibly could. Things have not changed that much from then until now – except for the manner of the search and how it has gone. Some pretty [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Two variations of alterations will buildup within our chromosomes as we advance in age – these are known as mutations and epimutations. Mutations are modifications of the DNA string as it is, and epimutations being modifications to the DNA decorations, that regulate its inclination to be reprogrammed into proteins. Fortunately, it is not necessary that [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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Once again laboratory rodents are taking advantage of longevity studies and benefiting from the results. Clinical investigators placed aging mice on a reduced calorie eating regimen and over jut a four week time frame they turned around a number of the reactions displayed by the genes in the mice that were exhibited during ordinary age [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 8, 2010
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Several years ago, scientists working at Brown University found something that was quite astonishing; If you are able to reduce the activity in the cancer stifling protein p53 – you could enable the lowly fruit fly to extend its life dramatically. These days that same group of researchers is detailing an exciting follow-up report. That [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 5, 2010
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Researchers have halted the process of aging for the very first time in a whole organ based on a recently divulged research report. According to the online journal Nature Medicine, Scientific investigators from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University out of New York City, the organs are operating just as efficiently as they [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 4, 2010
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Scientists from Mount Sinai School of Medicine began by trying to answer a question that had baffled the science community for many long years: How is it that caloric restriction can result in safeguarding against diseases and effects of aging? And conversely, how does an excessive quantity result in a hastening of age associated illness? [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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We humans try many things in order to look younger, including many amalgams to keep our original hair color and our skin crease free. That is all fine and good but what can be done about those things less simple to maintain, like the wasting away of our muscle tissue as we advance in years? [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 1, 2010
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Note to all those who pushed one anti aging or fountain of youth elixir or another – Be gone! – There is a serious science for that now. When the average round worm achieves its eighteenth birthday – and I mean days – it is already showing multiple signs of old age such as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 29, 2010
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One particular theory about the advancement of aging is the cumulative damage to cells, however, it turns out this may not be the case. Rather, the advance of age might be the result of a degeneration of vital pathways based on a report published in the Journal, Cell. Stuart Kim was the lead scientist for [...]
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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