Health
Long-term unemployment may accelerate aging in men
Men who are unemployed for more than two years show signs of faster ageing in their DNA, a new study has found.
Nov 20, 2013
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News tagged with telomere length
Genetics
Calorie restriction study reveals complexities in how diet impacts aging
Penn State researchers may have uncovered another layer of complexity in the mystery of how diet impacts aging. A new study led by researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development examined how a person's ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Genetics
Significant relationship between mortality and telomere length discovered
A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect ...
Nov 8, 2012
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Five surprising findings about death and dying
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes, as Benjamin Franklin famously wrote. Few of us find taxes exciting, but death – even just thinking about it – affects us profoundly in many different ...
Dec 9, 2015
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Health
Signs of healthy aging found in ergothioneine telomere study
An in vitro study published in theJournal of Dietary Supplements, demonstrated Blue California's ErgoActive ergothioneine helped to preserve telomere length and reduced the rate of telomere shortening under oxidative stress.
Dec 11, 2020
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Health
Racism may accelerate aging in African-American men
A new study reveals that racism may impact aging at the cellular level. Researchers found signs of accelerated aging in African American men, ages reporting high levels of racial discrimination and who had internalized anti-Black ...
Jan 7, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer therapies may trigger aging phenotypes in survivors
(HealthDay)—Cancer therapies have direct effects on telomere length, epigenetic modifications, and microRNA, which can mimic phenotypes of aging, according to a review published online Dec. 18 in ESMO Open.
Dec 19, 2017
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Genetics
Playing the long game: An exciting discovery in telomere disease
Each time our cells divide, the protective caps that keep our chromosomes from fraying, called telomeres, lose a bit of their DNA. Telomeres shorten steadily as we age, but in certain medical conditions like dyskeratosis ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Medical research
Study links severe COVID-19 disease to short telomeres
Patients with severe COVID-19 disease have significantly shorter telomeres, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in collaboration with the COVID-IFEMA Field Hospital, ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Genetics
New DNA insights may lead to cancer therapy
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a better understanding of a complex mechanism that contributes to the growth of telomeres, the repetitive sequences of DNA that protect the end of a cell's chromosomes. ...
Oct 23, 2015
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