News tagged with ageing process


Heart failure accelerates male 'menopause'

Heart failure accelerates the aging process and brings on early andropausal syndrome (AS), according to research presented today at the Heart Failure Congress 2013. AS, also referred to as male 'menopause', was four times ...

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How healthy are you for your age?

On May 22, JoVE will publish details of a technique to measure the health of human genetic material in relation to a patient's age. The method is demonstrated by the laboratory of Dr. Gil Atzmon at New York's Albert Einste ...

Medical research created May 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Boosting 'cellular garbage disposal' can delay the aging process, research shows

(Medical Xpress)—UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, ...

Genetics created May 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify protein that reverses some effects of aging in mouse hearts

Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers – one a stem cell biologist and one a practicing cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital – have identified a protein in the blood of mice and humans that ...

Medical research created May 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fish oil may stall effects of junk food on brain

Data from more than 180 research papers suggests fish oils could minimise the effects that junk food can have on the brain, a review by researchers at the University of Liverpool has shown.

Health created May 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Brain region may hold key to aging

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain of aging": the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists at Albert Einstein ...

Neuroscience created May 01, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Why makeup matters? Psychology reveals new sign of aging in perception research

(Medical Xpress)—The contrasting nature of facial features is one of the signals that people unconsciously use to decipher how old someone looks, says Psychology Prof. Richard Russell, who has been collaborating ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 17, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Discovering how the brain ages

Researchers at Newcastle University have revealed the mechanism by which neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and other parts of the body, age. The research, published today in Aging Cell, opens up new avenues of understanding ...

Neuroscience created Sep 12, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cholesterol-lowering eye drops could treat macular degeneration

A new study raises the intriguing possibility that drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol may be effective against macular degeneration, a blinding eye disease.

Medical research created Apr 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Parkinsons' drug helps older people to make decisions

A drug widely used to treat Parkinson's Disease can help to reverse age-related impairments in decision making in some older people, a study from researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging has shown.

Neuroscience created Mar 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists turn back the clock on adult stem cells aging

Researchers have shown they can reverse the aging process for human adult stem cells, which are responsible for helping old or damaged tissues regenerate. The findings could lead to medical treatments that may repair a host ...

Medical research created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Link found between MicroRNA and neurological aging in fruit flies

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from several institutions in the Philadelphia area have banded together to form a team to look into the possible impact a certain type of MicroRNA (miRNA) may have on the neurological ...

Medical research created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Telomere stress reveals insight into ageing

Scientists at Newcastle University have unlocked clues that give us a greater understanding of the ageing process. 

Medical research created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study reveals how diabetes drug delays ageing in worms

A widely prescribed type 2 diabetes drug slows down the ageing process by mimicking the effects of dieting, according to a study published today using worms to investigate how the drug works.

Medical research created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cells from skin create model of blinding eye disease

For the first time, Wisconsin researchers have taken skin from patients and, using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology, turned them into a laboratory model for an inherited type of macular degeneration.

Genetics created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast