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"Longevity gene": shelf life – 99 years

Variations in the FOXO3 gene affect a person's life expectancy only up to the ninth decade, and the chances of living to 100 or more years do not actually depend on them.

20.07.2017
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Pimples in the brain

In the brain samples of people with Alzheimer's disease, the predominance of bacteria living on the skin and in the mucous membranes, including the causative agent of acne on the face, was noted.

19.07.2017
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Senile dementia and sex

Psychologists from Coventry and Oxford Universities have shown that high sexual activity correlates with the preservation of cognitive abilities in old age.

18.07.2017
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The Sleeping Grandmother hypothesis

A new study confirms the importance of age-related changes in sleep patterns: "poorly sleeping grandmothers" increased the safety of a tribe living in the wild.

12.07.2017
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Gait speed will help predict dementia

A group of scientists from the USA has shown that slowing down gait in combination with a decrease in the gray matter of the hippocampus allows predicting dementia.

04.07.2017
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A common enemy

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases have different risk factors and clinical manifestations, but the formation of pathological accumulations of proteins in both cases stimulates the same enzyme.

04.07.2017
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The Killer Chromosome

Do you think it's only men who live less than women? Tell this to the mantis, he will laugh. Although no, he has nothing to laugh at, his head was eaten by a female after intercourse.

23.06.2017
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Push back the border?

According to the authors of the new study, despite the aging of the world's population, the boundary of old age is moving away, which radically changes demographic forecasts.

23.06.2017
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Biological age indices

Arterial indicators for calculating indices are evaluated noninvasively, by quantifying four indicators of cardiovascular health.

29.05.2017
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Four more "longevity genes"

New rare gene variants are associated with exceptional longevity and a reduced risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease.

29.05.2017
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White and brown fat operation switches

Researchers from England and the USA have described the mechanism of brown adipose tissue cleavage mediated by the activity of orexigenic neurons.

25.05.2017
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Antibodies against the effects of menopause

An international team of scientists has discovered an antibody that suppresses both the main negative effects of menopause – obesity and osteoporosis.

25.05.2017
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Who will be healthy, rich and wise?

British epidemiologists have shown a link between the number of important life skills of a person and indicators characterizing the quality of life of older people.

13.04.2017
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Dementia gives up on education

Among the elderly participants of the Framingham Heart Study program from 1977 to 2008, the incidence of dementia decreased by 20% over 10 years, but only in people with completed secondary education.

20.03.2017
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All geroprotectors in one database

The largest database of promising chemical compounds and drugs with geroprotective properties will help in improving existing and discovering new drugs in this category.

14.03.2017
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Progeria on a chip

An international group of scientists has developed an artificial organ that allows us to find out how vascular cells react to their contractions normally and in diseases.

07.03.2017