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• Looking young may mean living longer

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 138
  Associated Press Yahoo News | Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life. Research published online Monday in the British medical journal BMJ suggests that people who look younger than their years also live longer. In ...
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• My telomeres are longer than yours

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  People who look young for their age ‘live longer’ People blessed with youthful faces are more likely to live to a ripe old age than those who look more than their years, work shows. Danish scientists say appearance alone can predict survival, after they studied 387 pairs of twins. The researchers asked nurses, ...
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• Science & Soul: Cellular Automata

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 99
  Science News in Brief Turns out that the Iron Curtain helped isolate Eastern Europe from more than the Western world.  It also blocked the import of alien bird species.  Restrictions on the movement of people and trade in Soviet bloc countries prevented invasive birds being imported, a problem which has plagued ...
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• SG not responsible for irrepressable manliness, hangovers

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 139
  According to researchers, exercise may keep you young at a molecular level . They believe that exercise keeps telomeres, which are essentially aglets on the shoelaces of your DNA strands, long enough to prevent fraying and cell death (their analogy). In fact, active test subjects were cellularly on par with inactive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science & Soul: I’m Back!

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 99
  Sorry about the long wait, but work comes first.  Anyway, I am getting back in the swing of things for a little while. Science News in Brief The Large Haldron Collider has resumed operation and set a new world record for energy.  Its particle beams were accelerated at over one trillion volts.  This was just a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Child abuse may accelerate cellular aging, shorten telomeres

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  Brown.edu - Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new NIH-funded research from Butler Hospital and Brown University.The findings, which are published online in the journal Biological Psychiatry, draw a direct connection between childhood ...
  2 weeks ago

• Novel test may speed up war against cancer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Sydney, Nov 23 (ANI): Australian scientists have successfully developed the first test in the world for a technique by which cancer cells make themselves immortal.The advance, made by researchers at the Children’s Medical Research Institute, could speed up development of new types of anti-cancer drugs.It could also ...
  3 weeks ago

• Longevity linked to Genes that preserve Telomeres

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  A team researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends of chromosomes. The findings of the study recently appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 99
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
  4 weeks ago

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