News tagged with ageing process
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 ...
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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
May 01, 2013 |
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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
May 06, 2013 |
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A shot of young stem cells made rapidly aging mice live longer and healthier
Mice bred to age too quickly seemed to have sipped from the fountain of youth after scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine injected them with stem cell-like progenitor cells derived from the muscle ...
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Jan 03, 2012 |
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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
Mar 17, 2013 |
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Scientists discover novel mechanism by which calorie restriction influences longevity
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a novel mechanism by which a type of low-carb, low-calorie diet—called a "ketogenic diet"—could delay the effects of aging. This fundamental discovery reveals how ...
Medical research
Dec 06, 2012 |
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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
Sep 12, 2012 |
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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
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Longevity gene makes Hydra immortal and humans grow older
Why do we get older? When do we die and why? Is there a life without ageing? For centuries, science has been fascinated by these questions. Now researchers from Kiel (Germany) have examined why the polyp ...
Medical research
Nov 13, 2012 |
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Declining testosterone levels in men not part of normal aging, study finds
A new study finds that a drop in testosterone levels over time is more likely to result from a man's behavioral and health changes than by aging. The study results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 94th ...
Health
Jun 23, 2012 |
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3 Questions: MIT biologist on new resveratrol study
In the early 1990s, MIT professor Leonard Guarente discovered that sirtuins, a class of proteins found in nearly all animals, protect against the effects of aging in yeast; similar effects have since been ...
Medical research
Mar 07, 2013 |
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Live longer with fewer calories
By consuming fewer calories, ageing can be slowed down and the development of age-related diseases such as cancer and type 2 diabetes can be delayed. The earlier calorie intake is reduced, the greater the effect. Researchers ...
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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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
Nov 08, 2012 |
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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
Apr 02, 2013 |
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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
May 09, 2013 |
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