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Dated: 8th July 2009
By:
Dr Charles Tweed
Source: BBC News
Title:
Tests raise life extension hopes
A drug discovered in the soil of a South Pacific island may help to fight the ageing process, research suggests.
When US scientists treated old mice with rapamycin it extended their expected lifespan by up to 38%.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, raise the prospect of being able to slow down the ageing process in older people.
Click to Read Article.
Rapamycin?
Perhaps not one to add to your supplement regime just yet, but of interest never the less...
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Dated: 18th June 2009
By:
Alistair Tweed
Source: New Scientist Magazine
Title:
Teenage "baby" may lack master ageing gene
Pioneering investigations have thrown the first scientific light on the highly unusual case of Brooke Greenberg, a child from Baltimore, Maryland, who is 16 years old, but whose size and development corresponds to that of an infant of 11 months.
The hope is that the investigation will throw up new clues to ageing. But the researchers involved say that Brooke`s condition is not a reversed version of conditions that lead to premature ageing.
Click to Read Article.
Will this investigation ignite debate about whether there are genetic causes of aging rather than a lack of ability to maintain normal cell function?
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Dated: 17th June 2009
By:
Dr Charles Tweed
Source: BBC News
Title:
Hope for test to measure ageing
Scientists are developing a simple blood test to measure how fast the body`s tissues are ageing at a molecular level.
Click to Read Article.
Scientists are already interested in the protein p16INK4a because it is known to play a role in suppressing the development of cancer.
p16INK4a is present in the T-cells of the immune system, which play a key role in fighting disease, and repairing tissue damage.
Not only did the North Carolina team show that levels were closely related to cellular ageing, they also found a strong link with certain behaviours, such as tobacco use and physical inactivity, which are known to accelerate the ageing process.
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Dated: 15th June 2009
By:
Alistair Tweed
Source: BBC News
Title:
Weekly curry "may fight dementia"
Eating a curry once or twice a week could help prevent the onset of Alzheimer`s disease and dementia, a US researcher suggests.
The key ingredient is curcumin, a component of the spice turmeric.
Click to Read Article.
Possibly not the strongest evidence for curcumin we have ever seen, but it is lovely to be able to bring you news of experiments that (almost) involve giving curry to mice. To make it more applicable to humans, I think they should give the mice beer as well. And maybe even get them to have fights in a car park afterwards although that is bound to upset the animal rights activitsts...
On a more serious note, we should expect to see more data coming out on curcumin over the next year or two. Hopefully, someone will find a way to make it more bioavailable soon.
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Dated: 28th May 2009
By:
Alistair Tweed
Source: Financial Times Newspaper
Title:
Growing Old Gracefully
The human yearning for longevity and eternal youth dates back to the dawn of civilisation. Yet research into healthy ageing, as opposed to the diseases of old age, only became a well-funded scientific endeavour in the 1990s.
Ageing research is now one of the hottest fields in biology, and scientists have accumulated a vast amount of information about the genes and proteins that influence how long we live. But how it all fits together into an overall theory of ageing remains uncertain – as does the more practical question of how much the healthy human lifespan can be extended by science and medicine.
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An excellent article on longevity from one of the UK`s most reputable publications. (Subscription required).
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