Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Long happy life

Openness to new experiences, sociability, prudence, happiness. All this is good, but how can a person's worldview affect his health and longevity?

24.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Scientists have reversed muscle aging

Injections of osteocalcin, a hormone that bones produce during exercise, restored muscle performance to elderly mice at the level of three–month–old animals.

15.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Alternatives to death

How does modern molecular biology look at the phenomenon of aging? How are they trying to study aging, are there any hopes for slowing down or even stopping this process?

14.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Mice with extra-long telomeres

Scientists from the Spanish Cancer Research Center have created mice with extra-long telomeres in their chromosomes. At the same time, the animals remained young longer.

03.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Rapamycin was tested on dogs

The results of the experiment conducted on 24 dogs for several weeks are not enough to draw serious conclusions, so scientists plan to start long-term trials.

01.06.2016
Prolonging youth

Clinical studies of geroprotectors

What is interesting about clinical studies of a drug that cures 10 diseases in animals and, perhaps, even able to influence the aging process?

17.05.2016
Prolonging youth

A disease that doesn't exist

In St. Petersburg, within the framework of the conference "Biomedical innovations for healthy longevity", scientists, public figures and journalists exchanged views on the issues of prolonging youth, longevity and the fight against aging.

17.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Are the effects of aging reversible

Will we be able to reverse the aging process in the future? Recently, there is more and more evidence in favor of the fact that we can.

16.05.2016
Prolonging youth

How vitamin B3 protects against aging

The addition of nicotinamide triboside to food, which is a special form of vitamin B3, rejuvenates the stem cells of the body, contributing to an increase in life expectancy.

16.05.2016
Prolonging youth

Work prolongs life

Early retirement can be a risk factor for premature death, and working at retirement age, on the contrary, increases the survival rate of older people.

29.04.2016
Prolonging youth

The Key to Healthy Longevity

Removal of the Per2 gene prevents a decrease in the number of immune cells in the blood of aging mice and increases their life expectancy by 15% without increasing the incidence of cancer.

21.04.2016
Prolonging youth

Lithium chloride as a geroprotector

The addition of a lithium-containing mood stabilization drug to food increases the life expectancy of fruit flies-fruit flies by 16%.

11.04.2016
Prolonging youth

How to stop aging

Aging can be treated – this formulation is not as absurd as it may seem. The scientific director of Gero, Peter Fedichev, talks about the fight against aging.

30.03.2016
Prolonging youth

How to cheat the genes of old age

Scientists have identified more than a thousand genes associated with the aging process. Exposure to them allows you to prolong life, while – in laboratory animals.

28.03.2016
Prolonging youth

Plant extracts will keep you young

Extracts of six plants, the most effective of which is willow bark extract, extend the lifespan of yeast by 5-6 times – a convenient model for preliminary study of potential geroprotectors.

16.03.2016
Prolonging youth

Study and stairs rejuvenate the brain

Learning and walking up stairs prevents the age-related decrease in the gray matter of the brain, thus slowing down its aging.

11.03.2016
Prolonging youth

Genetically modified centenarians

American researchers have increased the lifespan of mice by up to 35%, clearing their body of aged cells.

04.02.2016