The Ageing Brain
Everyone does it, we barely understand it, and as of now, there is no way of stopping it: ageing. What causes our downfall as we get older and can we stop it?
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What a Ball of Wool can tell You about Healthy Aging
Seeking for objective measures that indicate how healthy you are.
The Stress of Ageing
How do I knock off thirty years from my age?
Take control of your telomeres – Elizabeth Blackburn
It was an accidental mutation of the Tetrahymena thermophila, a pond organism, during a lab experiment that revealed that the enzyme telomerase keeps the protective caps on the end of chromosomes long. Speaking at the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau, Elisabeth Blackburn compared the caps, called telomeres, to the tips on the end of a shoelace that prevent it from fraying. Telomeres […]