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Test to Predict Your Chance of Reaching Your 100th Birthday

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Test to Predict Your Chance of Reaching Your 100th Birthday

Want to know whether you will celebrate your 100th birthday? Recent tests can now predict. In accordance to scientists, there now exist a test that can genetically predict if a person will be able to reach his 100th birthday. Researchers of Yale University and Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston Medical Center, [...]

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Paleo diet – One Way To Avoid Diseases

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Paleo diet – One Way To Avoid Diseases

People have abandoned the Paleo diet for mass produced food and a sedentary lifestyle. The Paleo diet is also called the caveman diet or Paleolithic diet. In the Hunter-gatherers society, some 2 million years ago, humans consumed natural foods; fish, meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts and eggs. It was a diet low in carbohydrates and high [...]

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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 research from University of Pittsburgh confirmed that they had found the secret behind a [...]

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People Enjoying Extreme Longevity Are Blessed with Longevity-Genes

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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People Enjoying Extreme Longevity Are Blessed with Longevity-Genes

A recent study showed that people who live to 110 years have an equal amount of disease-associated genes as the overall population. However, super-centenarians are gifted with protective genes enabling them to enjoy extreme longevity. Super-centenarians’ (people living to 110 or beyond) are uncommon in the general population. In developed countries only one person out [...]

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Transcendent Man – A New Revolutionary Quest To Human Immortality

Sunday, November 27, 2011

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Transcendent Man – A New Revolutionary Quest To Human Immortality

A link to watch the Full Movie: Transcendent Man. Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, futurist as well as author of The Singularity is Near has developed documentary film: Transcendent Man. Ray’s film is inspirational to all ages, and will possibly help to motivate funding for development of technology that can rejuvenate our organs as well as [...]

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Study On Yeast Holds Promising Hints For A Youthful Future

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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Study On Yeast Holds Promising Hints For A Youthful Future

Recent research on yeast, seem to be revealing intriguing information on how to look young for several to come. A group of researchers from National Taiwan University & Johns Hopkins have managed to alter the lifespan of typical single-celled yeast organisms. This was achieved by comprehending how to restore and remove protein associated with the [...]

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Human Lifespan Research stimulated by Senescence Breakthrough

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Human Lifespan Research stimulated by Senescence Breakthrough

Research continues to move at a snail’s pace as far as the most basic and difficult challenge related to the health of humans is concerned – increasing lifespan. It should most aptly be described as a long process and study which defines timelines. But it is not an easy puzzle to unravel. But then, once [...]

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Living To The Age of 150 Years – A Possibility with New Drugs

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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Living To The Age of 150 Years – A Possibility with New Drugs

According to researcher experts, the next five to ten years are very likely to witness the advent of the first drugs that are capable of delaying the process of ageing, thereby increasing the probability of humans surviving up to or over the age of 150. A newly born Australian baby girl could very well look [...]

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Epigenetic Inheritance – Longer Life Can it Be Inherited?

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Epigenetic Inheritance – Longer Life Can it Be Inherited?

Instead of the differences in the DNA, the inheritance of the changes in the usage of their genes can be a means to pass on the increased span of life from one generation of worms who live long, to the next. A study shows that even if there are no changes in the overall hereditary [...]

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Older Women’s Negligence towards Risk of Breast Cancer

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Older Women’s Negligence towards Risk of Breast Cancer

A survey indicated that just one out of 50 women is aware that the risk of breast cancer is highest amidst older women and not the middle-aged women. Two-third of women aged more than 70, believe that breast cancer occurs more frequently in women between 40 and 59. The charitable Breast Cancer program reports that [...]

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