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Calorie Restriction: Scientists Take Important Step Toward ‘Fountain of Youth’

December 28, 2009 Life Extension

Going back for a second dessert after your holiday meal might not be the best strategy for living a long, cancer-free life say researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. That’s because they’ve shown exactly how restricted calorie diets — specifically in the form of restricted glucose — help human cells live longer. This…

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New Technique Detects Proteins That Make Us Age

December 17, 2009 Life Extension

Chemists and biologists from the University of Bath have developed a new technique that could be used to diagnose and develop treatments for age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and cancer. In these diseases, proteins in the body react with sugars in a process…

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Scientists Find Molecular Trigger That Helps Prevent Aging and Disease

November 18, 2009 Life Extension

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction — and the reverse, overconsumption — produce protective effects against aging and disease? An answer lies in a two-part study led by Charles Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, published…

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Both Major Theories About Human Cellular Aging Supported By New Research

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Aging yeast cells accumulate damage over time, but they do so by following a pattern laid down earlier in their life by diet as well as the genes that control metabolism and the dynamics of cell structures such as mitochondria, the power plants of cells. These research findings, presented at the American Society for Cell …

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Tests Begin on Drugs That May Slow Aging

August 18, 2009 Life Extension

It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span, without eating one fewer calorie. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it’s on such a diet. It sounds too good to be true, …

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Unstable proteins can cause premature ageing

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The normal ageing process has long been linked to problems with cell respiration, the process through which the cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now shown how certain proteins that are synthesised in the cellular mitochondria – popularly known as the cells’ power plants – become unstable [...]

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