by Sam Carr, The Conversation Credit: mrmohock/Shutterstock Molly was 88 years old and in good health. She had outlived two husbands, her siblings, most of her friends and her only son. “I don’t have any meaningful relationships left, dear,” she told me. “They’ve all died. And you know what? Underneath it all, I want to leave...
EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY It’s generally accepted we will lose muscle strength and slow down as we age, making it more difficult to perform simple tasks such as getting up, walking and sitting down. But new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research indicates this could also be a signal for another sinister health concern of ageing: late-life dementia. To...
By Michael Irving April 30, 2023 Scientists have developed an oscillating genetic ‘clock’ that significantly slows down the aging process in tests in yeast cells Depositphotos Scientists at UC San Diego have developed a way to potentially slow down the cellular aging process, using an oscillating genetic ‘clock.’ In tests, yeast cells were found to...
by University of Michigan Key findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging about the use of prescription medications by people age 50 to 80, and their attitudes and experiences toward deprescribing at least one prescription medicine they’ve been taking for a year or more. Credit: Emily Smith – University of Michigan As the movement toward...
by Impact Journals LLC Mechanisms of cell death induced by CUDC-907 in senescent cells. Credit: 2023 Al-Mansour et al. A new research paper was published in Aging, titled “Characterization of the HDAC/PI3K inhibitor CUDC-907 as a novel senolytic.” The accumulation of senescent cells has an important role in the phenotypical changes observed in aging and in many age-related...
Have we finally found a way to slow down the ageing process? – Copyright Euronews/CanvaBy Camille Bello Despite centuries of research and progress in medicine, there are still many mysteries that remain unresolved, chief among them being an understanding of what causes ageing and how can we slow it down or reverse it. But a new study...
Problems with a sense of smell may predict a higher risk for age-related health problems, according to researchers from the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. What to Know Smell dysfunction acts as an early indicator of cognitive decline as well as signs of frailty in the brain and unhealthy aging. Researchers assessed olfactory sensitivity and olfactory identification, terms...
by Diana Yates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In a study of older adults, a research team led by, from left, Christopher Zwilling, Tanveer Talukdar and Aron Barbey found that blood markers of two saturated fatty acids, along with certain omega-6, -7 and -9 fatty acids, correlated with better scores on tests of memory and were associated with...
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC IMAGE: FIGURE 2: RAPAMYCIN PREVENTS CANCER BY SLOWING TUMOR PROGRESSION (HYPOTHETICAL SCHEMA). CREDIT: 2023 BLAGOSKLONNY “[…] long-term treatment with rapamycin slows down aging, a major risk factor for cancer […]” BUFFALO, NY- April 17, 2023 – A new research perspective was published in Oncotarget’s Volume 14 on April 14, 2023, entitled, “Cancer prevention with rapamycin.” The mTOR (Target...
Gemma Conroy RNA polymerase (blue) unwinds DNA (violet), using it as a template to produce a strand of messenger RNA (red). In aged cells, this process accelerates.Credit: selvanegra/Getty Ageing seems to affect cellular processes in the same way across five very different kinds of life — humans, fruit flies, rats, mice and worms — according...
