Research has shown that older persons who have acquired positive beliefs about old age from their surrounding culture are less likely to develop dementia. This protective effect was found for all participants, as well as ...
Feb 7, 2018
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Deciding to start a family later in life could be about more than just the age of your eggs. A new study in mice suggests the age of a mother's womb may also have a part to play. This work, led by Dr Myriam Hemberger at the ...
Sep 5, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM) have discovered a possible new explanation for female infertility. Thanks to cutting-edge microscopy techniques, they observed for the first time ...
Apr 3, 2017
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The stereotype that older men are usually attracted to much younger women may not fully reflect reality, a new study suggests.
Feb 10, 2017
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The increased risk of mental illness in children of older fathers is unlikely to result from men's genes mutating with age, according to new research from The University of Queensland.
May 24, 2016
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The discovery of a "maternal age effect" by a team of Penn State scientists that could be used to predict the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations in maternal egg cells—and the transmission of these mutations to ...
Oct 13, 2014
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Do older fathers doom their children to genetic disease?
Aug 22, 2012
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Loss of muscle mass is not only associated with disease, such as HIV and cancer, but also with the normal aging process. Anabolic steroids are sometimes used to reverse loss of lean muscle tissue but they can have unwanted ...
Jun 19, 2011
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A decline in testosterone levels as men grow older is likely the result—not the cause—of deteriorating general health, say Australian scientists, whose new study finds that age, in itself, has no effect on testosterone ...
Jun 7, 2011
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New research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) finds that pneumonia-causing bacteria are common in the over 60s ...
Apr 3, 2024
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