by Allessandra Dicorato, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Credit: Susanna Hamilton, Broad Communications New research suggests age-related changes in blood cell chromosomes are a marker of impaired immunity. A person’s risk of severe infections increases dramatically as they grow older, but scientists do not yet understand how age might be linked to weakened immunity. Now, research shows...
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC IMAGE: The Cdkn1a variant 2 transcript is preferentially induced during aging. (A) We designed primers (black arrows) to specifically detect Cdkn1a variant 1 and 2 transcripts, spanning the first and second exons in each case. The protein-coding region is indicated as well as the ATG start codon (brown arrow). Transcription starts at...
by Lauren Rouse, Texas A&M University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Older adults with cognitive impairment are two to three times more likely to fall compared with those without cognitive impairment. What’s more, the increasing use of pain medications for chronic pain by older adults adds to their falls risk. Risks associated with falls include minor bruising...
MAY 28, 2021 Tooth loss may affect ability to carry out everyday tasks by University College London Credit: Pixabay credit: mlarseen62 (CC 2.0) Older adults with more natural teeth are better able to perform everyday tasks such as cooking a meal, making a telephone call or going shopping, according to researchers from UCL and the...
By Emily Willingham on May 25, 2021 Jeanne Calment enjoys her daily cigarette and glass of red wine on the occasion of her 117th birthday. In 1997, she died at the age of 122 and still holds the record for being the person with the longest lifespan. Credit: Jean-Pierre Fizet Getty Images The chorus of the theme song for the...
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC IMAGE: INTERVENTION GROUP AGE CHANGE. PARTICIPANTS SCORED AN AVERAGE OF 1.96 YEARS YOUNGER THAN BASELINE (P=0.066). OF 18 PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, 8 SCORED AGE REDUCTION, 9 WERE UNCHANGED, AND 1 INCREASED IN METHYLATION AGE CREDIT: CORRESPONDENCE TO: KARA N. FITZGERALD A groundbreaking clinical trial shows we can reduce biological...
by Flinders University Credit: CC0 Public Domain Men aged 65 and over should monitor their sleep patterns and seek medical advice after a warning from Flinders University experts that disrupted slumber can be linked to cognitive dysfunction. In a new article published in the Journal of Sleep Research, the Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health research group studied a group of...
If you come from a family where people routinely live well into old age, you will likely have a better cognitive function (the ability to clearly think, learn and remember) than peers from families where people die younger. Researchers affiliated with the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) recently broadened that finding in a paper published in Gerontology,...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Telomeres are protective caps on DNA that shorten as we grow older. Now, one of the first studies to examine telomere length (TL) in childhood finds that the initial setting of TL during prenatal development and in the first years of life may determine one’s TL throughout childhood...
By AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY JANUARY 19, 2021 Credit: Shamir Medical Center Study finds hyperbaric oxygen treatments halt the aging of blood cells and reverses the aging process. A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) in healthy aging adults can stop...
