Looking for Evidence of Inherited Longevity in Cells
Researchers are examining cellular biochemistry in people who belong to long-lived families: "The offspring of nonagenarian siblings suffer less from age related conditions and have a lower risk of Continue Reading
Investigating How Stem Cell Transplants Assist Healing in the Brain
Via EurekAlert!: "For years, researchers seeking new therapies for traumatic brain injury have been tantalized by the results of animal experiments with stem cells. In numerous studies, stem cell Continue Reading
Another Update on a Tissue Engineered Trachea Transplant
One of the world's more active tissue engineering research and development groups works on building replacement tracheas from a scaffold and the patient's own cells. They have carried a number of Continue Reading
Regeneration Observed in Kidney Podocyte Cells
Another cell population thought to be static throughout life turns out to be capable of regeneration and renewal, given the right cues: "Damage to podocytes - a specialized type of epithelial cell in Continue Reading
From the Programmed Aging Camp
Here is an open access paper from a researcher who focuses on mTOR and sees aging as almost entirely programmed, not the consequence of stochastic damage. His view as outlined in the paper is Continue Reading
Parrots Versus Quail
It isn't only rodent species that have a wide enough range of longevity to intrigue researchers. Amongst the rodents, naked mole rats can live nine times longer than shorter-lived and similarly sized Continue Reading
Discussing Tau Vaccines at the SENS Foundation
The latest in a series of articles on immunotherapies aimed at clearing out the build up of cellular aggregates involved in Alzheimer's disease: "Immunotherapy targeting the age-related accumulation Continue Reading
David Brin on the Urge to Radical Life Extension
Via the IEET: "Suppose you had a chance to question an ancient Greek or Roman - or any of our distant ancestors, for that matter. Let's say you asked them to list the qualities of a deity. It's a Continue Reading
Telomere Length When Young Correlates With Life Span in Finches
Telomeres are the protective caps of repeated DNA sequences stuck onto the end of chromosomes, cut short with each cell division, but maintained by an enzyme called telomerase whose job, amongst Continue Reading
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Internet Learning Center
Find links to local teachers and private tutors on this page. If you’re an educator and wish to have your sevice listed here please drop us an email. The type of tutors you will find below Continue Reading
An Update on Uncoupling and Longevity for Humans
Uncoupling proteins (UCPs) govern the process of mitochondrial uncoupling, which changes the operation of the mitochondria in our cells to generate more heat and less of the cellular fuel chemical Continue Reading
Sourcing Stem Cells From the Eye
From CTV News: "Researchers say they have discovered a new source of stem cells at the back of the eye, which they hope may one day provide a way to repair the damage from age-related macular Continue Reading
Very Early Life Influences Later Life
One of the predictions of reliability theory as applied to aging is that we are all born with an existing level of damage. One of the ways in which that damage might occur - and "damage" here is a Continue Reading
Research and Clinical Development Industries in the US Must Start to Extend Beyond the US
If research and development in medicine is to move at anywhere near the pace it is capable of, given the rapid progress in all forms of underlying biotechnology, it must find a way to extend beyond Continue Reading
Tracking the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a lifestyle disease for the vast majority of people - you avoid it by refraining from overeating, becoming fat, and giving up exercise to turn sedentary. But some folk are Continue Reading
Alzheimer’s Starts Early
The onset of Alzheimer's is not a sudden thing, which reinforces the view of it as a lifestyle disease: "The first changes in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease can be observed as much as Continue Reading
Development of Exercise Mimetics Will Recapitulate the Development of Calorie Restriction Mimetics
Exercise mimetics are drugs that can replicate some fraction of the beneficial effects of exercise; their development is in the early stages. I don't think it's too far-fetched to suggest that the Continue Reading
