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Hormone therapy successfully used to stop cells from aging for the first time
A male sex hormone could keep our cells young forever.
The prevailing assumption is that mothers who birth more children live short lives due to accelerated biological aging. Researchers turn ...
There's an immense body of evidence that proves that meditation has significant beneficial effects for mental health, but it's only ...
Blood from world’s oldest woman tells us why life reaches its limits
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, aged 115. Photo: wikia.com No matter how much some would like to avoid ...
NASA to conduct unprecedented twin experiment: one twin will spend a year circling the Earth, while the other stays grounded
It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an ...
Biomarker explains why some people catch colds more often than others
Researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University have identified a biological marker in the immune system that (starting from about age ...
Genetics might predict how long you’ll live. Trauma might shorten life span
Researchers at Duke University studied the telomeres - the tip of chromosomes that protect them - in a group of ...
University of Nottingham scientists spurred a slew of debate in 2008 when they claimed their object of study, the planaria or "flatworm", ...