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Researchers Locate Molecular Stimulator That Aids In Prevention Of Illness And Aging

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Researchers Locate Molecular Stimulator That Aids In Prevention Of Illness And Aging

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? [...]

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Restricting Caloric Intake May Reduce Muscle Loss In Elderly Years

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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Restricting Caloric Intake May Reduce Muscle Loss In Elderly Years

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? [...]

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Trying To Stay Alive Forever

Monday, November 1, 2010

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Trying To Stay Alive Forever

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 [...]

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Reconsidering The Aging Process

Friday, October 29, 2010

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Reconsidering The Aging Process

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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Lab Favored C. Elegans Worm Regulates Life Span In Elevated Temperature

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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Lab Favored C. Elegans Worm Regulates Life Span In Elevated Temperature

A worm generally utilized in research experiments, C. elegans, has been found to be able to utilize nerves that can sense heat that enables it to control it reaction to warmer surroundings. It also can regulate the swiftness of its age progression based on that heat, so says some novel research out of the University [...]

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Human Genes Number More Than Poultry Less Than A Grape

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Human Genes Number More Than Poultry Less Than A Grape

If scientists are ever going to figure out how to live prolonged and healthy lives, they are going to need to break down the exact number of genes that exist in us humans. They still really have no idea how many genetic elements are required to contrive a human being. One number raised is humans have twenty [...]

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Casting A Line For A Connection Between Age Progression And Cancer

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Casting A Line For A Connection Between Age Progression And Cancer

Brandishing a tray of chromosome paints, scientific investigators from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are just a bit closer to perceiving the association that connects age advancement and cancer. They have achieved through the visualization of cell chromosomes from those suffering from a heritable early onset diseases associated with aging called Werner Syndrome. Due [...]

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Mice Live Twelve Percent Longer From Amino Acids – Are Humans Next?

Friday, October 22, 2010

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Mice Live Twelve Percent Longer From Amino Acids – Are Humans Next?

Scientists conducting research in Italy might have stumbled upon a health additive that may potentially prolong life. Enzo Nisoli and associates produced a mix of amino acids and supplied it to mice through their water provision. The rodents that drank the vita health mix had on average a longer life span eight hundred sixty nine [...]

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Novel Insulin Reaction Plays Part In Life expectancy And Aging

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Novel Insulin Reaction Plays Part In Life expectancy And Aging

Medical investigators based at the Joslin Diabetes Center have displayed how a previously unidentified reaction of insulin has a part to play in life span and aging for humans. The discovery may mean it could ultimately supply a method for genetic manipulation that would benefit humans by increasing their life expectancy and giving them a [...]

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Diminutive Females Might Live Much Longer Due To Gene Mutation

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Diminutive Females Might Live Much Longer Due To Gene Mutation

The gene that is associated to extended life – up to ninety years old and past – has also been linked to women who are short, based on some novel research. Alterations in genes that control a vital cell indicator corridor have an impact on prolonged human life expectancy, as discovered by researchers at Albert [...]

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