Gerontology

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Prolonging youth

Sedentary lifestyle

Reducing the time a person spends sitting to less than three hours a day can extend their life by two years. And by reducing the time of watching TV to two hours a day, you can "throw" yourself almost another year and a half of life.

10.07.2012
Prolonging youth

Gene therapy for memory rejuvenation

After the introduction of additional copies of the DNA methylase gene into hippocampal cells, the memory of elderly mice was dramatically rejuvenated.

03.07.2012
Prolonging youth

Life Extension: from the elixir of immortality to SkQ

The problems of aging and death have interested mankind since ancient times, while the desire to understand the phenomenon of aging was inseparable from the desire to slow down or eliminate it.

03.07.2012
Prolonging youth

To grow up to a hundred years ... of sexuality!

A person who regularly lives a sexual life will have sex to the grave. This is normal for a man, unless his health is damaged by alcohol, drugs, some diseases.

27.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Blocking one protein slows down aging

Suppression of the synthesis of a single protein - the nuclear factor-Kappa-bi (NF-Kappa B) – allowed scientists to slow down the aging of mice.

26.06.2012
New in Gerontology

Lonely old age is a risk factor

Elderly people who feel lonely are characterized by a 59% higher risk of deterioration of health and a 45% higher risk of death.

20.06.2012
New in Gerontology

A new way to fight aging and cancer?

Experts hope that preventing the development of cancer and other age-related diseases will only be a side effect of drugs developed based on the results of their work. The main result will be a slowdown in the aging process.

19.06.2012
Prolonging youth

We will make you live longer!

Chief therapist of Russia A.Chuchalin: "If we have an effective fight against tobacco smoking, then plus 10-15 years to the life (of the population)... If it works (the anti-smoking law), then we will come to this result."

19.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenate the egg

American scientists have found a way to rejuvenate human eggs with the help of donor mitochondria.

04.06.2012
Theories of aging

Telomeres and diseases (5)

Given that telomeres limit the limit of proliferative capabilities of cells, the mechanisms of their elongation are a very promising tool for regenerative medicine.

25.05.2012
Theories of aging

Telomeres and diseases (4)

Simple but attractive arguments concerning the relationship between telomere length and aging should today be viewed with a certain degree of skepticism as contradictory, simplistic and potentially dangerous.

25.05.2012
Theories of aging

Telomeres and diseases (3)

There is a lot of evidence that telomere shortening is associated with the development of cancer and may be a causal factor in the development of a number of oncological diseases.

25.05.2012