News tagged with age compounds

Promising drug candidate reverses age-related memory loss in mice

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh today report a new experimental compound that can improve memory and cognitive function in ageing mice. The compound is being investigated with a view to developing a drug that could ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy aging

Scientists today reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the aging brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognized way. Their study, presented ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Facebook ads less than lucrative for many businesses

As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.'s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social network's main business, advertising, was sputtering.

Technology / Business

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Organic carbon from Mars, but not biological

(Phys.org) -- Molecules containing large chains of carbon and hydrogen--the building blocks of all life on Earth--have been the targets of missions to Mars from Viking to the present day. While these molecules ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Keeping immune cells alive and kicking

New results from research on the International Space Station are offering clues on why astronauts’ immune systems don’t work as well in space. The findings may benefit the elderly on Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Compounds shared by all worms may lead to parasite treatment

(Phys.org) -- Worms are important decomposers in soil and are great for fishing, but in humans, the slimy wrigglers spell trouble. Hookworms, whipworms, Ascaris, Guinea worms and trichina worms are just a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Some corals could survive a more acidic ocean

Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought – giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unsustainable harvesting of Prunus africana tree threatens prostate treatment

Responding to the dwindling abundance of Prunus africana in the wild, a tree listed as "vulnerable to extinction" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a recent study by the World Agroforestry Centre identi ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UF research begins to unlock 'formulas' for taste, aroma appeal of tangerines

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers are working to speed up their ability to create new tangerine varieties by pinpointing the compounds that make them taste and smell the way they do.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personalized chemotherapy, cheaper medicine, affordable health care -- they may be closer than you think

(Medical Xpress) -- New technology being developed at Florida State University could significantly decrease the cost of drug discovery, potentially leading to increased access to high-quality health care and cancer patients ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Japanese disaster one year later

As the world remembers the horrors of the disaster on its one-year anniversary, experts at the Mailman School take stock of disaster response, nuclear fears and lessons learned

Technology / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Characterization of winter organic aerosols in Beijing, China

Organic aerosol (OA) is a crucial component of atmospheric fine particles. To achieve a better understanding of the sources of OA is very significant for air pollution control. In the 2012, Vol 57(7) of Chinese Sc ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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