How would we do it? By using viruses as tiny aestheticians A new discovery about the effects of aging in our cells could allow doctors to cure or prevent diabetes, fatty liver disease and other metabolic diseases – and possibly even turn back the clock on aging itself. IMAGE: NEW RESEARCH FROM IRINA M. BOCHKIS, PH.D., OF THE...
Tag: <span>Anti-Aging</span>
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A new puzzle piece to control the aging and age-related diseases
A basic discovery of how the cellular functions are connected to control aging is presented in the journal Cell Metabolism. The study shows that an increasingly deteriorating communication between the cells’ organelles is an important cause of aging. The discovery is the result of a collaboration between five research groups at the University of Stockholm and Gothenburg. IMAGE: MARTIN...
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Anti-aging protein alpha Klotho’s molecular structure revealed
Researchers from UT Southwestern’s Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research and Internal Medicine’s Division of Nephrology recently published work in Nature that reveals the molecular structure of the so-called “anti-aging” protein alpha Klotho (a-Klotho) and how it transmits a hormonal signal that controls a variety of biologic processes. The investigation was performed...
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Mushrooms may be stuffed with anti-aging potential
Researchers have found that mushrooms contain unusually high amounts of anti-oxidative compounds ergothioneine and glutathione Ergothioneine and glutathione. Hardly household names when it comes to health, but some scientists believe these antioxidants can play a vital role in fighting aging and its associated diseases. A new study has found mushrooms to be packed with these compounds, and...
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Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials
A landmark stem cell therapy to treat frailty in senior citizens is all set to move into the final phase of human clinical trials The results of two human clinical trials into a stem cell therapy that can reverse symptoms of age-associated frailty have been published, and the indications are that this landmark treatment...
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Stem cells collected from fat may have use in anti-aging treatments
Adult stem cells collected directly from human fat are more stable than other cells — such as fibroblasts from the skin — and have the potential for use in anti-aging treatments, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. They made the discovery after developing a new model to...
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Nobel Prize Winner Claims to Have Found the Key to Slowing Aging
IN BRIEF Science is making strides in trying to truly understand aging and any real ways in which we can slow its march or perhaps even stop it altogether. One scientist says that the key to slowing down aging is in lengthening the ends of your DNA, telomeres, by certain behavioral changes. THE QUEST TO...
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Reverse ageing – Human trials within 10 years
An end to grey hair and crows-feet could be just 10years away after scientists demonstrated it is possible to reverse ageing in animals. Using a new technique which takes adult cells back to their embryonic form, US researchers at the Salk Institute in California, showed it was possible to reverse ageing in mice, allowing the...