Prolonging youth

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Prolonging youth

Immune System Rejuvenation: Inhibit inhibitors!

Suppression of one of the signaling mechanisms activated by an encounter with an infectious agent makes it possible to temporarily rejuvenate inactivated T-lymphocytes of the aging immune system.

30.08.2011
Prolonging youth

We stop growing and multiplying – we move on to prolonging life!

Suppression of the mRNA translation factor of the IFG-1 gene causes the redistribution of the resources of the adult worms from the growth and reproduction regime to the preferential preservation of somatic cells, which prolongs their life by 40%.

07.07.2011
Prolonging youth

The secret of cell rejuvenation has been discovered

A gene has been identified that provides the rejuvenation of cells necessary for their reproduction. There is nothing left – to find the same mechanism in human cells, not yeast.

27.06.2011
Prolonging youth

Testosterone rejuvenates, but not everyone

Testosterone replacement therapy not only restores muscle mass in older men, but also returns the levels of some biomarkers of aging to normal. But, unfortunately, this does not happen in all patients.

22.06.2011
Prolonging youth

Secrets of longevity from Professor Shabalin

The area of scientific interests of Vladimir Nikolaevich is the physiological and biochemical processes of the body's involution and the development of measures for their stabilization and prevention, immunological and immunogenetic problems of human aging.

19.05.2011
Prolonging youth

Displacement of old age

In a rapidly aging world, aging people are treated badly, sometimes even extremely badly. And here is one of the reasons that people try not to get old. Or at least not look aging (not to mention "old").

18.05.2011
Prolonging youth

The Source of eternal youth from Johnny Depp

The film "Pirates of the Caribbean: on Strange Shores" is packed with legends: Jack Sparrow and the mysterious Angelica embark on a search for the Source of eternal youth...

16.05.2011
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Is higher education a cure for old age?

DNA studies conducted by British scientists have demonstrated that in poorly educated people, cell aging occurs faster than in those who have received higher education.

12.05.2011
Prolonging youth

Paint for prolonging life

Laboratory dye thioflavin T (basic yellow) prolongs the life of C.elegans worms almost twice.

01.04.2011
Prolonging youth

The recipe for prolonging life: become a dwarf!

Dwarfism in Laron syndrome is caused by a violation of the synthesis of insulin–like growth factor, an increased concentration of which leads to "diseases of aging" - cancer, diabetes, circulatory disorders. Drugs that suppress the synthesis of IGF exist. Do you want to try it?

18.02.2011
Prolonging youth

Prolonging life: slow down mitochondria?

If we transfer the data obtained from worms to humans, then slowing down the mitochondria in a 30-year-old would add 15 years to his life.

13.01.2011
Prolonging youth

Another way to prolong life: to suppress the growth hormone activator

Mice in whose bodies (at an average age for this line) scientists disrupted the work of the hormone stimulating the synthesis of growth hormone, lived almost a quarter longer than the animals of the control group, and were more than 5 times less likely to get cancer.

10.12.2010
Prolonging youth

Rejuvenation by telomerase activation: article in Nature

The authors of the article on the method of rejuvenation of mice believe that telomerase activation can be used to treat rare diseases associated with premature aging, and maybe also to develop methods of rejuvenation of healthy people.

29.11.2010
Prolonging youth

So that the memory becomes like a young one

The drug, selectively suppressing the synthesis of one of the glucocorticoids only in brain cells, rejuvenated the brains of decrepit (two-year-old) mice so that in the spatial memory test they were not inferior to young healthy animals.

20.10.2010