Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Rejuvenate the egg

American scientists have found a way to rejuvenate human eggs with the help of donor mitochondria.

04.06.2012
Prolonging youth

Gene therapy increases life expectancy

The first attempt using genetic methods to induce the expression of telomerase in adult animal cells, an enzyme that restores the length of telomeres and thus slows down the "biological clock", was crowned with success.

16.05.2012
Prolonging youth

The hematopoietic system can be rejuvenated

Pharmacological rejuvenation of hematopoietic stem cells will help to combat age-related decline in immunity and, possibly, other age-related problems.

04.05.2012
Prolonging youth

Running from premature death

The risk of death in the study participants who regularly jogged was 44% lower, and life expectancy was 6.2 in men and 5.6 years longer than among those who did not run.

03.05.2012
Prolonging youth

Olive oil with fullerenes – the elixir of youth?

The rats of the control group lived an average of 22 months; the group that sat on the "Mediterranean diet" with olive oil – 26; and those who had fullerene C60 added to the oil lived almost 2 times longer than the controls, on average 42 months.

23.04.2012
Prolonging youth

My young and old...

Vladimir Shabalin, Director of the NCC of Gerontology, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, told about the problems of aging and how to stay young longer on the eve of World Health Day.

06.04.2012
Prolonging youth

Rapamycin: prolonging life without side effects?

The "drug of youth" – rapamycin – disrupts the functioning of two protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2. To significantly prolong life, it is enough to suppress the work of only the first of the rapamycin targets.

02.04.2012
Prolonging youth

Preserve youth: stem cells instead of physical education

The ability of adult stem cells to actively respond to mechanical impact will help develop new methods of rehabilitation after injuries and prevent age-related loss of muscle mass, and possibly for its recovery.

13.02.2012
Prolonging youth

Grow old actively!

This paper outlines several approaches used to determine active aging, and also explains the dangers associated with some of the generally accepted concepts.

07.02.2012
Prolonging youth

Grow old actively: used literature

References to the article Boudiny & Mortelmans A Critical Perspective: Towards a Broader Understanding of ‘Active Aging' (Critical Perspective: to expand the understanding of the term "active aging").

07.02.2012
Prolonging youth

Forever young and forever drunk

The main rules for prolonging youth with alcohol: take a little, but regularly, start from the first days of life, do not snack and ... be born a worm.

24.01.2012
Prolonging youth

Probiotics increase life expectancy

If the results of clinical studies confirm the data of experiments on mice, probiotic bacteria of the LKM512 strain will help to increase human life expectancy and improve the health of the elderly.

11.01.2012
Prolonging youth

Young stem cells slow down aging

The introduction of young stem cells did not lead to a complete cure of progeria in mice, but perhaps the results obtained will help develop ways to prolong life with normal aging.

11.01.2012