Genetics may soon provide us with a means of finding out how long each individual on this planet will live, as soon as they are born. In a new study, experts found that the length of cellular components called telomeres can be used to predict human lifespan.
Telomeres are structures located at the end of chromosome... |
21 February 2012
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The motives are often more important than the action itself, a new research from scientists at the University of Michigan seems to confirm. The team here found that people who help others for truly unselfish reasons live more than those who aid with the goal of helping themselves.
This interesting difference in l... |
8 September 2011
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LinkedIn plans to mitigate the security concerns related to its session cookies by reducing their lifespan to three months and implementing HTTPS across the entire social networking site.A few days ago a security researcher disclosed several problems with LinkedIn's authentication tokens which exposed accounts t... |
24 May 2011
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According to a new report presented by researchers on Wednesday, the average American has won an additional 21 weeks of life following pollution-reducing measures employed over the course of the past two decades. Releasing small particles from exhaust pipes or smoke stacks has been forbidden, which means that less su... |
23 January 2009
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Scientists who conducted a recent research study at Harvard School of Public Health claim to have found ways to increase people's lifespan with at least 5 years. Every individual on the planet will die of some cause at a certain point, and the reasons are various, as is their likeliness to occur, ranging fr... |
24 September 2008
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Life is ephemeral by definition but it does vary from one species to another. The lifespan of each organism is considered to be the actual time it takes said organism to complete its life cycle. Most bacteria live for 15-80 minutes and then they divide into two daughter cells. More complex organisms live much longer.... |
14 May 2008
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Guinness Book credits as the oldest living person the American Edna Parker, born on the 20th of April, 1893 (thus 114 years, 7 months and 28 days old). But, the oldest person in the world seems to actually have been an Ukraine man, Hryhoriy Nestor, a bachelor born on the 15th March, 1891, according to the family doc... |
18 December 2007
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"The winner takes it all". Including the longer life. Scientists confirm it. A new research made at the University of Warwick in England investigated the cases of 524 nominees for the Nobel Prizes in physics and in chemistry between 1901 and 1950 and it revealed in the Research Papers in Economics that the 135 winner... |
7 November 2007
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Humans have been searching since ever for the secret of the deathless life and ageless youth. They linked longevity to pha-4 encountered in nematode worms, looked at the hormones of the queen bee or that of the naked mole-rat to see why she lives so much longer than the workers, but by now, no drug boosting longer-li... |
1 November 2007
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