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How to Boost Immune Response to Vaccines in Older People

March 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Research just published by the Linterman lab shows that the immune system of older mice can be given a helping hand by applying immunology expertise and some genital wart treatment...

How to Slow Down Ageing?

March 23, 2020
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Tartu, Estonia — Healthy ageing has become one of the priorities of research in Europe. University of Tartu researchers looked for differences in the immune systems of young and old people. They focused...

Rapamycin has Harmful Effects When Telomeres are Short, Scientist Discovers

March 5, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — In the past few decades, it was discovered that the rate at which we age is strongly influenced by biochemical processes that, at least in animal models, can be controlled in the laboratory....

Why Do Men — and Other Male Animals — Tend to Die Younger? It’s All in Y Chromosome

March 5, 2020
Helen Yiu

Kensington, Australia — According to popular theory, men live shorter lives than women because they take bigger risks, have more dangerous jobs, drink and smoke more, and are poor at seeking advice...

Eat Less, Live Longer: Scientists Show How Caloric Restriction Prevents Negative Effects of Ageing in Cells

February 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — If you want to reduce levels of inflammation throughout your body, delay the onset of age-related diseases, and live longer–eat less food. That’s the conclusion of a new...

Brain Cells Protect Muscles from Wasting Away

February 24, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — While many of us worry about proteins aggregating in our brains as we age and potentially causing Alzheimer’s disease or other types of neurodegeneration, we may not realize that...

Human Gut-in-a-Dish Model Helps Define ‘Leaky Gut,’ and Outline Pathway to Treatment

February 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Once a vague scapegoat for a variety of ills, increasing evidence suggests a condition known as “leaky gut” — in which microbes and other molecules seep out of the...

Study Identifies 17 Key Compounds in Wine Aromas

February 4, 2020
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Andalusia, Spain — Maybe words such as ethyl butanoate and octalactone sound unfamiliar to most people who drink wine. However, these substances are some of the ones that give this popular drink its...

Researchers Discover How Cellular Senescence Leads to Neurodegeneration

January 30, 2020
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Novato, CA — Although a link has been established between chronic inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases, there have been many open questions regarding how cellular senescence, a process whereby...

Living Longer Is Important, but Those Years Need to Be Healthy Ones

January 29, 2020
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Dallas, TX — Data reported in the just published American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Statistics – 2020 Update, show heart disease and stroke deaths continue to decline, but...

Scientific Evidence Found for Role of Stress in Hair Whitening

January 23, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — People usually start gradually graying in their thirties. Once crossing the age of 50, one will be hard-pressed to successfully disguise one’s white hair crown without paying...

Beauty Sleep could be Real, Say Body Clock Biologists

January 16, 2020
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Manchester, UK — Biologists from The University of Manchester have explained for the first time why having a good night’s sleep really could prepare us for the rigours of the day ahead. The...

Drinking 1% Rather Than 2% Milk Accounts for 4.5 Years of Less Ageing in Adults

January 16, 2020
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London, UK — A new study shows drinking low-fat milk — both nonfat and 1% milk — is significantly associated with less ageing in adults. Research on 5,834 U.S. adults by Brigham Young...

Biological Scientists Identify Pathways that extend lifespan by 500%

January 9, 2020
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Bar Harbor, ME — Scientists at the MDI Biological Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, Calif., and Nanjing University in China, have...

Study of Cardiac Muscles in Flies might Help You Keep Your Heart Young

January 7, 2020
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Ames, IA — Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on ageing heart muscles in fruit flies, a development that could lead to new therapies for older humans with heart disease. Hua...

Study Reveals How Relaxin Targets Cardiovascular Disease

January 7, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — As a healthy heart ages, it becomes more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases. Though researchers have discovered that relaxin, an insulin-like hormone, suppresses atrial fibrillation...

Changes in Immune System Explain Why Belly Fat is Bad for Thinking

December 19, 2019
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Ames, IA — Iowa State researchers have found for the first time that less muscle and more body fat may affect how flexible our thinking gets as we become older, and changes in parts of the immune system...

New Study Reveals Function of Corpora Amylacea to Remove Brain Waste Substances

December 5, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in the central nervous system to expel waste substances from the brain through...

New Finding Offers Possibility for Preventing Age-Related Metabolic Disease

November 18, 2019
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New Haven, CT — A study by researchers at Yale has uncovered why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age, a finding that could offer new treatment possibilities for improving metabolic...

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