News tagged with biological age
Scientists clock onto how sunlight puts a spring in our step
Scientists have discovered two "body clock" genes that reveal how seasonal changes in hormones are controlled and could ultimately help find treatments for seasonal affective disorder.
Apr 29, 2010 |
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The sweet smell of aging
What does the smell of a good meal mean to you? It may mean more than you think. Specific odors that represent food or indicate danger are capable of altering an animal's lifespan and physiological profile by activating a ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk
The hunter-gatherers who inhabited the southern coast of Scandinavia 4,000 years ago were lactose intolerant. This has been shown by a new study carried out by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. The ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Childhood adversity may promote cellular aging
Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse could be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research published by Elsevier in Biological Psychiatry.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Wild Iberian horses contributed to the origin of the current Iberian domestic stock
Some modern horses of Iberian origin are descendants from wild horses from the Early Iberian Neolithic, dated around 6,200 years ago. Ancient lineages are mainly represented in the Lusitano group C, constituted ...
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Possible link studied between childhood abuse and early cellular aging
Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Scandinavians are descended from Stone Age immigrants
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction ...
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Humans 'damaging the oceans': research
Mounting evidence that human activity is changing the world's oceans in profound and damaging ways is outlined in a new scientific discussion paper released today.
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Researchers to reveal aging's origins on global stage
Four of the biologists who described the underlying causes of aging will soon share their findings with an international audience during a symposium at the upcoming World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, taking place ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Children of older fathers perform less well in intelligence tests during infancy
Children of older fathers perform less well in a range of cognitive tests during infancy and early childhood, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. In contrast, the study finds ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction
Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Divorce, antidepressants, or weight gain/loss can add years to your face
Your mother's wrinkles — or lack there of, may not be the best predictor of how you'll age. In fact, a new study claims just the opposite. The study, involving identical twins, suggests that despite genetic make-up, certain ...
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Lamin B locks up Oct-1
A large fraction of the transcription factor Oct-1 is associated with the inner nuclear envelope, but how and why it is retained there was unknown.
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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