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28th Sep 2008

Young at Heart - Healthy Ageing


Ben Valsler

Helen Scales

This week, how to live longer and look younger with the science of ageing!  We discover how repairing damage to DNA could prevent the diseases associated with old age, and find out how to keep your skin looking younger for longer.  Also, doing just four things could add fourteen years to your life - so find out what they are, right here!  Plus, how gene therapy could cure one from of blindness, how to get more distance from a tank of diesel and counting insects - how bees can count up to four, but not five.  Also, in Kitchen Science, we explore the stretchy science of rubber bands!

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News

Gene therapy holds hope for blindness

This week researchers have taken a step closer to using gene therapy for treating a type of inherited blindness. Artur Cideciyan from the University of Pennsylvania led a team who have been looking at therapies that aim to treat a rare form of blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis or LCA. St...

Electricity gets More Distance for your Diesel

Subjecting your diesel engine to a high voltage could improve the efficiency by 20% - which could save a lot of money on the forecourt! Internal combustion engines are becoming more efficient with each generation of cars, but we’re still a long way off perfection.  Now, researchers at Temple U...

Giant tortoises not gone yet

This week saw the return of Galapagos Day, an annual event held by the Galapagos Conservation Trust and this year there was some good news: a species of giant tortoise that was thought to have gone extinct over a hundred years ago may in fact not be lost forever. A team of scientists from Yale Univ...

Bee counted

Scientists have shown that bees can count up to 4! Marie Dacke and Mandyam Srinivasan who carried out the work at the Australian National University in Canberra have published a paper in Animal Cognition describing a series of experiments to prove that the humble honeybee is numerically more sophis...


Questions

How do dividing cells carry the information about our real chronological age forward into the next generation of cells?


In the sun, why does our skin go dark, but our hair go light?



Interviews

From Breastmilk to Baby's Blood

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the process, using a gold nanoparticle to shine a light on how it works...

Damaged DNA

DNA damage leads to many of the diseases we associate with ageing, so if we could stop DNA from being damaged, or repair existing damage - could we stay young forever?

Younger Looking Skin

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

How to Live Longer

You may be surprised to hear that some very simple lifestyle changes can extend your life by 14 years! We find out how to live longer...


Kitchen Science

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Heat shrink

Find out what happens if you heat rubber, and what it has to do with crisp packets and shrink wrap.


QotW

Why does hair grow out of control in older people?

Why does eyebrow hair grow out of control in older people?


Thats interesting I did not realize that our DNA could change!...
- Karen W. - 28th Sep 08

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- BRValsler - 21st Oct 08

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