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Living longer thanks to the 'longevity gene'
A variation in the gene FOXO3A has a positive effect on the life expectancy of humans, and is found much more often in people living to 100 and beyond - moreover, this appears to be true worldwide. A research group in the ...
Feb 03, 2009 |
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What's in store for the centenarians of the next millennium?
Today's babies will be tomorrow's centenarians. A new report says that reaching the age of 100 may become ordinary for most American babies born since 2000. How will living for a century affect our kids? And what quality ...
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Researchers find that protein believed to protect against cancer has a Mr. Hyde side
In a biological rendition of fiction's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, researchers from the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida and Harvard Medical School have found that a protein thought to protect against cancer development ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Oncoproteins double-team and destroy vital tumor-suppressor
Two previously unconnected cancer-promoting proteins team up to ambush a critical tumor suppressor by evicting it from the cell's nucleus and then marking it for death by a protein-shredding mechanism, a team led by scientists ...
Feb 14, 2008 |
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FOXO factor promotes survival of oxygen-deprived cancer cells
Scientists report that an evolutionarily conserved transcription factor may have both positive and negative effects on the growth of tumors, depending on whether or not the tumor cells have enough oxygen. The research, published ...
Dec 27, 2007 |
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