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Blindness is linked to dementia

Age-related macular degeneration correlates with a higher risk of neurodegenerative diseases.

27.03.2020
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Let's reveal the secrets of centenarians

Scientists have reprogrammed the cells of a 114-year-old woman in IPSC and plan to compare them with analogues of people of a different age.

25.03.2020
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Rapamycin and short telomeres

In mice with short telomeres, rapamycin does not prolong life, as one would expect, but, on the contrary, reduces it.

20.03.2020
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The switch of aging

It is possible that the mechanism of depolarization of the inner mitochondrial membrane is a kind of anti-aging program.

10.03.2020
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Accomplices of radicals

Carbonyloxides can become a new target for the fight against aging – for example, they will allow the creation of new types of antioxidants.

28.02.2020
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Progressive dementia

According to a meta-analysis conducted by Alzheimer's Europe specialists, the number of people with dementia in the world will exceed 100 million by 2050.

20.02.2020
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Growth matters

Tall young men have a lower risk of developing dementia in old age.

14.02.2020
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Microflora and age

The scientists plan to use the obtained results to study the aging process and what role the microbiota plays in this.

14.02.2020
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Protection from radicals

Oxidative stress, which naked diggers actively accumulate at the growth stage, is compensated by low metabolism at maturity.

12.02.2020
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Masked aging

Early mortality is a manifestation of natural selection for unfavorable mutations, which has nothing to do with aging.

29.01.2020
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Telomeres and aging: new data

The number of telomere abnormalities not only increases with age, but also correlates better with it than the length of telomeres.

21.01.2020
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Everyone ages in their own way

Biomarkers of at least one of the four groups changed with age in each of the study participants.

15.01.2020
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Twice as long as it should be

The life span of vertebrates is recorded in methylated sections of DNA. For a person, the estimated life span is 38 years.

16.12.2019
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The new "aging protein"

CSB protein deficiency triggers the aging process. Its depletion is caused by potentially reversible epigenetic modifications.

11.12.2019
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Barons are getting old…

With age, the population of B-lymphocytes in visceral fat increases, which leads to obesity and chronic inflammation.

19.11.2019
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Lymphocytes of super-long-livers

Unusual cytotoxic T-lymphocytes are found in the blood of healthy people over 110 years old and may be the key to longevity.

15.11.2019
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Paradoxical effect

Scientists transplanted bacteria from old mice to young ones and found that cells in their intestines and brains began to divide more actively.

15.11.2019
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Contagious zombies

Aging dopamine neurons stop functioning and release signaling molecules that age neighboring cells.

14.11.2019