News tagged with human aging


Biomarkers reveal our biological age

Biomarkers reveal our biological age

Biology /

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not a day passes when we don’t get a little bit older. However, the exact processes involved in human aging are still puzzling. Scientists working with Lenhard Rudolph and Hong Jiang from ...


Scientists locate disease switches

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, has identified no less than 3,600 molecular switches in the human body. These switches, which regulate protein functions, may ...





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Stanford's Dostoevsky biographer concludes acclaimed series

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Everything was silent in St. Petersburg's Semenovsky Square. On the cold December day in 1849, the snow fell softly on the soldiers, on the crowd and on the ragged prisoners who unexpectedly found themselves blinking at the ...


A little magic provides an atomic-level look at bone

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone. The research by scientists at the University of Michigan ...


Why we outlive our ape ancestors

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Caleb Finch, is that as humans ...


Message for women and dogs: keeping ovaries is linked to longevity

Biology / Other

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- This year, hundreds of thousands of women and pet dogs will undergo a hysterectomy and have their ovaries removed along with their uterus. Now, two independent research studies looking at longevity may challenge ...


Long-term physical activity has an anti-aging effect at the cellular level

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intensive exercise prevented shortening of telomeres, a protective effect against aging of the cardiovascular system, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.


Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Cell phones to provide picture of human interaction

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National ...


Dehydration Affects Mood, Not Just Motor Skills

Dehydration Affects Mood, Not Just Motor Skills

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dehydration has long been known to compromise physical performance. Now, a new study provides insight into the effects of mild dehydration on young athletes, and possibly into the lives of ...


Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging

Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University.


An atomic-level look at an HIV accomplice

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of ...



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