According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that stress is capable of affecting even the fabric your cells are made up of, leading to an acceleration of the aging process.
The usual, more visible effects of stress have been under investigation for a long time. These include everything fr... |
22 February 2012
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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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Investigators have recently determined that people who were subjected to traumatic experiences as children tend to be at an increased risk of experiencing the full effects of age-related diseases. Such conditions include autoimmune, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, as well as cancer and a host of other ... |
26 April 2011
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It may be possible that the key to preventing aging in humans is held in sea creatures that reproduce asexually, through cloning. Studies are now being conducted on some colony-forming organisms that have been alive for several tens of thousands of years. One of the most interesting conclusions extracted from these s... |
20 April 2011
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The conclusions of a new study appear to suggest that depression has side-effects extending beyond impaired mental health. Researchers recently determined that being depressed can also affect cell health, and especially the health of the human immune system. This makes people more predisposed to developing all sorts ... |
6 April 2011
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One of the ways in which stress affects health is by reducing the length of telomeres on chromosomes. This makes cells age faster, and lead to a host of side-effects, said investigators at the University of California in San Francisco (USCF) in a recent presentation. Their newest study was showcased yesterday, April ... |
5 April 2011
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Scientists from the United States announce that they managed to discover one of the main mechanisms through which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acts on the human immune system, weakening it, and making it incapable of fighting future infections.The team found out that the viral agent was causing a specific s... |
27 January 2011
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A group of scientists announces the creation of the first thee-dimensional model of telomerase, a special enzymes that plays a key role in regulating the life span of cells. The finding could aid the fight against cancer and aging.The main role that telomerase has is to maintain the quality and quantity of DNA locate... |
4 November 2010
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One of the most important components of chromosomes are telomeres, structures located at their ends that look like caps, and whose role is to protect the genes inside. These formations become shorter with each cellular division, and eventually force the cell to either remain in a vegetative, elderly state for a long ... |
27 April 2010
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According to a group of British researchers, the genes that show just how much people are exposed to illnesses when they become old have been identified. Experts from the University of Leicester, and Kings College London, say that the finding could be of significant importance for discovering people at risk of age-re... |
8 February 2010
07:21 GMT |
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There are many people in the world today that wish nothing more than to live a long and healthy life, perhaps even reaching the venerable age of 100 years old. A new investigation reveals one of the key elements that make this possible, in the form of an inherited cellular repair mechanism that is able to do its job ... |
13 November 2009
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