by admin | Aug 23, 2024 | news articles
By ScienceDaily – A WEHI study could help solve a long-standing mystery into why a key immune organ in our bodies shrinks and loses its function as we get older. The thymus is an organ essential for good health due to its ability to produce special immune cells...
by admin | Aug 21, 2024 | news articles
By Rosa Rahimi – CNN – Scientists have found that human beings age at a molecular level in two accelerated bursts – first at the age of 44, and then again at 60. In a study published in the journal Nature Aging, scientists at Stanford University and...
by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | news articles
By Clay Risen – The New York Times – Leonard Hayflick, a biomedical researcher who discovered that normal cells can divide only a certain number of times — setting a limit on the human life span and frustrating would-be-immortalists everywhere — died on...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | news articles
By F.D. Flam – Bloomberg Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying power may be that way due to molecular-level advantages. Studying those could further the quest to...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | news articles
By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, PhD. – News Medical Life Sciences – In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers developed a proteomic age clock using plasma proteins to predict biological age and the associated health risks. They...
by admin | Aug 14, 2024 | news articles
I’m extremely excited by this work. There has been significant interest recently in the idea that long genes will be particularly misexpressed in aging, but Aptah’s take on it is quite unique and highly compelling – and what’s more, it seems to...
