ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(UNIST) IMAGE: FROM THE LEFT, PROFESSOR TAEJOON KWON, HWAPYEONG CHO, KUJIN KWON, AND PROFESSOR HYUNG JOON CHO IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AT UNIST, TOOK GROUP PHOTO WITH THE BACKGROUND OF MRI EQUIPMENT USED IN THE STUDY. CREDIT: UNIST Iron (Fe) accumulates in the brain cortex with aging....
by Max Planck Society Rapamycin prolongs lifespan only in female fruit flies. Credit: K. Link/Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing The effect of medicines on women and men can differ significantly. This also applies to the currently most promising anti-aging drug rapamycin, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in...
by American Academy of Neurology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who eat or drink more foods with antioxidant flavonols, which are found in several fruits and vegetables as well as tea and wine, may have a slower rate of memory decline, according to a study published in Neurology. “It’s exciting that our study shows making specific diet...
BY MONIQUE BROUILLETTE PUBLISHED: MAY 6, 2022 Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography//Getty Images Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in 2012 for the discovery of his eponymous “Yamanaka factors,” which can revert cells to their embryonic state. The factors seemed promising for reversing signs of aging, but they reset the age of the cells too far back in...
by University of California, Irvine When the UCI-led team investigated the optic nerve head of eyes treated with mild pressure elevation, they noted that in the young optic nerve head, there was no sign of loss of axons. However, in the optic nerves of old animals, significant sectorial loss of axons was observed similar to...
From birth to death, a lot may change, but our DNA—the long, double-helix molecule that contains all of a person’s genetic code—stays the same. The instructions for reading that code can shift, however, as the chemical tags on and around a DNA sequence change throughout our lives, depending on our age, environment, and behavior. This...
By MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING NOVEMBER 7, 2022 Scientists found that worms live longer if introns remain in certain RNAs. The study found that faulty RNA processing can result in longer life. RNA is an important information transmitter in our cells and acts as a blueprint for protein production. When freshly formed RNA is processed,...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress After helping Ms. Quesada to sit down, Benoît tried to put the robot on the lady’s lap, asking her to take it, but she declined in an upset and nervous voice, repeating “No, no, don’t put it here.” The same had happened that morning: Ms. Quesada had refused to be...
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: NTU SINGAPORE SCIENTISTS LED BY ASSOC PROF GUILLAUME THIBAULT HAVE FOUND THAT A STRESS RESPONSE IN CELLS, WHEN ‘SWITCHED ON’ AT A POST-REPRODUCTIVE AGE, COULD BE THE KEY TO SLOW DOWN AGEING AND PROMOTE LONGEVITY. CREDIT: NTU SINGAPORE Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)have found that a stress response in...
by University of Birmingham Training performance (n¯) for each training day, for the SHAM and ACTIVE groups, within each AGE level. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. Credit: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.1009262 Older people may be able to boost their working memory with a new approach that couples online therapeutic games...
