Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Rejuvenate the aging immune system?

It is possible that the periodic administration of a macrophage colony-stimulating factor to elderly people will ensure the maintenance of a population of tissue macrophages and increase the efficiency of the aging immune system.

01.02.2010
Prolonging youth

Young blood returns youth to the elderly

The blood of young mice contributes to the rejuvenation of the hematopoietic system of old animals. The mechanism of this phenomenon, as well as its impact on health and life expectancy are still unknown.

29.01.2010
Prolonging youth

Life extension: the opinion of a well-informed optimist

– British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey believes that in 20 years scientists will be able to extend a person's life up to 1000 years. How do you feel about this? – I've heard this nonsense too...

12.01.2010
Prolonging youth

Rules for centenarians

There are many hypotheses about how to prolong life. Which one is closer to the truth? Or maybe for longevity, you need not one, but several prerequisites that help you live for a long time and not get sick?

11.01.2010
Prolonging youth

Less methionine – longer life: details

It is possible that mammals will find something similar. At least, it has previously been shown in mice that reducing the amount of methionine in food can prolong life.

10.12.2009
Prolonging youth

Prolonging life: remove the paternal genes!

Geneticists explain the prolongation of life in the "daughters of two mothers" by the suppression of the Rasgrf1 gene on chromosome 9 inherited from the father. It is possible that other genes, usually transmitted from the father, also affect life expectancy.

03.12.2009
Prolonging youth

Prolonging youth: to be continued

It's not about immortality. We are rather counting on an increase in the period of youth, we are struggling with age-related decrepitude of a person.

02.12.2009
Prolonging youth

Work is the best geroprotector

People who switch from full-time employment to temporary or part-time work get sick less often and their overall well-being is better than people who immediately stopped working completely. Moreover, pensioners working in their specialty retain their intelligence longer.

19.10.2009
Prolonging youth

The genetic source of youth

Researchers developing means to prolong youth have two more potential targets – proteins, the inactivation of which prolongs the life of experimental animals and allows them to maintain good physical and mental shape until old age.

07.10.2009
Prolonging youth

The Cure for Old Age live

The Trendonomics program (Finam FM) will talk about the cure for aging today. Ilya Polessky and three scientists are in the live broadcast studio.

23.09.2009
Prolonging youth

To prolong youth, train your brain

If the brain is not exercised, it will atrophy in the same way as unclaimed muscles. How to properly "pump up" intelligence?

17.09.2009
Prolonging youth

In search of a cure for old age

Currently, there is no effective "cure for aging". And I really want to live for a long time.

14.09.2009
Prolonging youth

"Science for Life Extension" at the World Gerontological Congress

Employees and experts of the Science for Life Extension Foundation took an active part in the congress, including presenting to its participants a new version of the comprehensive interdisciplinary program "Science against Aging".

22.07.2009
Prolonging youth

Will an immunosuppressant help you live up to a hundred years?

The aging process can be slowed down, and life expectancy increased, and by taking the drug already in old age. Scientists plan to find out whether it is possible to eliminate the side effect in the form of a decrease in immunity in the course of further experiments.

09.07.2009
Prolonging youth

Old age is somewhere beyond the horizon

Young people believe that old age comes at 60. Middle-aged people push this bar to 70 years. Those who have reached their 65th birthday believe that old age does not come before 74…

30.06.2009
Prolonging youth

Anti-aging Science: v.2.0

We propose for discussion, correction and addition one of the approaches to the preparation of the program "Science against Aging", proposed by Russian scientists.

19.06.2009
Prolonging youth

The formula of longevity

If you want to live longer, do not chase fashionable recipes, but just try not to shorten the time allowed by nature. A balanced diet and physical activity, coupled with regular preventive examination by a doctor, is the most reliable formula for longevity. She's the simplest.

13.05.2009
Prolonging youth

"Ions of Skulachev" against senile eye diseases

The list of senile eye diseases includes glaucoma, macular degeneration, various forms of retinopathy, cataracts, age–related hyperopia. Science knows that one of the reasons for such disorders is the accumulation of oxygen free radicals in the body. By neutralizing reactive oxygen species in the mitochondria of eye tissues, "Skulachev ions" restore vision.

02.04.2009