Dodging Death: Growing Old in Good Health
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How can we stay sharp as a senior citizen? This week, we explore the different biological approaches to understanding healthy ageing, discover a protein that may prevents age-related nerve degeneration and find out how to preserve cognitive function as we age. Plus, why Eunuchs lived longer, and how to turn trousers into catalytic converters that filter polluted air!
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Understanding age and age related diseases involves research at every level – from populations through individuals, their organs and separate cells, and even down to the molecular domain. These approaches were brought together recently for conference on Ageing and Bioscience, h...
Even with normal healthy ageing, we expect to see a decline in our cognitive functions over time. The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) was setup to try and understand how this happens and to find ways to extend our cognitive functions into old age...
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Over time, nerve cells or neurons can become damaged and either die or lose their connections to their neighbours. A protein that prevents nerve degradation in stroke or injury may also help to preserve nerve cells against the ravages of ageing...
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I was trying to think of a way to reverse aging. And I thought about all errors that accumulate in your DNA over the years and I wandered what would happen if you donated blood at an early age and then received transfusions of your own blood when you were older?
I assume there...
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