Aging

Neurotoxicity Of Anesthetics And Alzheimer's Disease

As life expectancies increase, so does the number of elderly people undergoing surgical procedures.    Recently, there has been growing about potential neurotoxicity of anesthetics and their role in post-operative cognitive decline. Alzheimer's Diseas ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2010 - 11:12am

We're Living Longer Than Previous Generations But Not Healthier

While the average lifespan of those who reach adulthood has continued to rise those years spent living without health issues have not kept pace. From 1970 to 2005, the probability of a 65-year-old surviving to age 85 doubled, from about a 20 percent chance ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2010 - 3:41pm

Live Fast, Still Die Old

When you were young you may have heard something about a dog like, "Fido is 10 years old, that is 70 in people years" and wondered what that meant. It's a rule of thumb but there is a science basis to it, yet current methods of comparing pat ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 3:01pm

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome In A Petri Dish

Patients with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome age eight to 10 times faster than the rest of us and rarely live beyond 13 years. Almost all of the patients die from complications of arteriosclerosis, the clogging or hardening of arteries or blood vesse ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2011 - 5:52pm

A Nasal Spray Vaccine For Alzheimer's Disease

Up to 12 percent of Americans may get Alzheimer's disease, current statistics say.  In the quest to prevent Alzheimer's, or at least make it manageable like diabetes, a group of researchers are working on a nasally-delivered vaccine that promises ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2011 - 12:24pm

The Forever Fly, The Forever Diet?

“You have to bump the cage harder. Like this.” Marta Santos took the plastic cage from my hands and smacked it with the palm of her hand, causing a few lifeless bodies to fall off the walls of the cube and collect on the floor. It was like kicking a vendin ...

Article - Louise Lao - Apr 15 2011 - 8:44pm

MLIP- A Genetic Link To Aging Hearts

A gene in the nucleus of muscle and brain cells named  MLIP (Muscle enriched A-type Lamin Interacting Protein) affects heart development and the aging process, according to a study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Mutations in the Lamin gene family ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2011 - 10:14am

Skeptical of Squid Skin Scam

Okay, it's not really fair to call it a scam, but I just couldn't resist the alliteration. Here's what they say: Squid skin is normally thrown away, but the Fisheries Research Institute [of Taiwan] announced recently that it has found a way ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jun 8 2011 - 5:28pm

Progerin, Telomeres And New Clues About Aging

A new study offers insights about the interaction between a toxic protein called progerin and telomeres, which cap the ends of chromosomes like aglets, the plastic tips that bind the ends of shoelaces.    Telomeres wear away during cell division. When they ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2011 - 11:46am

Wnt Signaling- Why Hair Turns Gray

A new study in Cell shows that Wnt signaling, already known to control many biological processes, between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells can dictate hair pigmentation. Using genetic mouse models, researchers were able to examine how Wnt signaling ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2011 - 11:55am