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Sociality, neoteny and longevity

Naked diggers and humans have an important common feature: neoteny, i.e. developmental delay, leading to the preservation of a number of childhood and even embryonic traits in adults.

07.03.2017
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How a low-calorie diet slows down aging

Reducing the caloric content of food slows down protein synthesis, which makes it possible not to waste cell resources on the synthesis of new ribosomes, but to restore existing ones and maintain their efficiency.

20.02.2017
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We sit and grow old

The telomeres of women who sat 10-13 hours a day, on average, were 170 "letters" shorter than normal, which corresponds to about 9 years of additional biological age.

19.01.2017
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New signs of brain aging discovered

Scientists from America and the UK managed to characterize changes in the expression of more than 100 genes associated with aging in ten regions of the brain.

18.01.2017
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Comprehensive analysis of biomarkers of aging

The new model will help to identify complications related to aging in a timely manner, such as stroke or diabetes mellitus, and offer a person measures to prevent them.

10.01.2017
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Telomere length, late delivery and longevity

Geneticists have found new evidence that a woman's life expectancy, as well as the time of birth of her last child, is reflected in the length of telomeres.

08.12.2016
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Men are programmed to die before women

Despite a very strong increase in human life expectancy as a whole, the life expectancy of men still remains lower than that of women.

23.11.2016
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Are children taking years of your life?

The telomeres of the study participants who gave birth to at least one child were on average 4% shorter than the telomeres of women who had never given birth.

10.11.2016
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Provocation of aging

The method of provoking premature cellular aging proposed by MSU scientists may be in demand in further studies of this cellular phenomenon.

08.11.2016
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Heredity, education and longevity

An international team of scientists has found that a genetic predisposition to a high level of education is associated with an increase in life expectancy.

02.11.2016
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The trigger mechanism of aging

The HMGB2 gene and its associated protein are the "key" to triggering cellular mechanisms associated with the development of cancer and the negative effects of aging.

01.11.2016
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Ecology of dementia

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have presented the first complete study of environmental factors that increase the risk of dementia (senile dementia).

14.10.2016
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You can't jump higher than the ceiling

The maximum life expectancy has already been reached and is 115 years. The absolute limit is 125 years: the probability of finding a person who has lived to 125 is less than 1 in 10,000.

06.10.2016
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Take care of the children

The stress suffered in childhood leads to accelerated telomere reduction. As a result, the cells age faster, and the person dies earlier than it could happen in other conditions.

04.10.2016
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DNA methylation and the likelihood of death

A team of scientists from 7 countries has demonstrated that DNA methylation can not only determine a person's biological age, but also predict his life expectancy.

29.09.2016
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Aging of the brain can be compensated

Old age impairs memory and slows down cognitive skills, however, a new study has shown that the brain has significant potential to reduce these effects.

16.09.2016
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Difficulties of finding the pill of immortality (7)

The destruction of cells that have entered the phase of physiological aging with the help of senolytics reduces the manifestations of decrepitude and increases the duration of a healthy life.

13.09.2016