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Rethinking the Wrinkling: Key Genes Cause Aging Key genes, rather than cell and DNA damage, as causes of aging.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Amber Dance |
A Trick of Light When miniSOG protein takes in blue light, it converts ordinary oxygen into a short-lived, excited state called singlet oxygen, which reacts with and changes the molecules around it. The singlet oxygen destroys the mitochondria's delicate machinery. |
Reason
August 2002
Ronald Bailey |
Forever Young The new scientific search for immortality |
AskMen.com
September 11, 2014
Chris Riddell |
The Anti-Aging Diet Here are 31 foods every guy should be eating to stay young. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate Converting one cell type directly into another is a kind of modern-day alchemy, an ultimate goal in biological research. But unlike turning base metals into gold, changing a cell's identity is feasible, new research shows. |
AskMen.com
December 12, 2014
Mark Hom |
Slowing The Aging Process Eating right and exercising can help you live longer. |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Akshat Rathi |
NO for longevity US researchers may have direct evidence for nitric oxide's apparent special powers, at least in the nematode model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. |
Bio-IT World
January 12, 2004
Karen Hopkin |
High-Tech Search for the Fountain of Youth Dramatic advances may help biotechs develop drugs that slow aging. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Cellular Search Engine Craig Mello's lab has now uncovered the reason piRNA molecules are so ubiquitous and exist in so many forms in C. elegans: so they can pair with essentially any genetic sequence they encounter during their endless scanning. |
Chemistry World
August 19, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Antioxidants could promote cancer Some tumor cells can actually use antioxidants to protect themselves from natural cellular defense mechanisms, enabling them to survive and proliferate. |
Chemistry World
December 7, 2011
Andrea McGhee |
Artificial enzyme outperforms nature Scientists in China and the US have fabricated an artificial enzyme that may provide new hope for the treatment of Lou Gehrig's disease. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2000 |
Science: Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Is there a Fountain of Youth? Will we cure cancer? Can we achieve immortality? Can we create artificial life? Where is the soul? Is the speed of light the ultimate speed limit? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we travel through time? |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2000
Carolyn McConnell |
"The Century of the Gene" by Evelyn Fox Keller A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene. At least, it has proved very difficult to isolate a discrete physical item that can do the work our notion of the gene does... |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Better Than a Straitjacket Scientist Sandhya P. Koushika devised an inexpensive, simple way to get the worms to pause so she can image cellular activity in the transparent creatures. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Proton Joins Elite Club of Cellular Messengers Researchers have discovered a new chemical that carries messages rapidly between cells - the first for more than 20 years. But unlike conventional signalling molecules, this is a far simpler chemical entity: it is the humble proton. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Antioxidants Here's the lowdown on antioxidants, where to find them and what they can do for you and your health. |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Slow Down Aging For those who are obsessed with youth, there are some things you can do to slow down aging. |
AskMen.com
May 13, 2014
Brett Hoebel |
Skip The Pharmacy. These Foods Will Keep You Looking Young. People don't realize that you cannot reverse aging with skincare products or lotions; that only goes skin deep and hides the signs. You have to go deeper to see that true reversal of aging starts from within. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Innovations and Opportunities The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Glenn Reynolds |
The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old Researchers have started looking into ways to slow, stop or perhaps even reverse the changes that accompany aging. If these scientists succeed, their breakthroughs may lead to major changes in human society. |
Chemistry World
July 11, 2007
Victoria Gill |
How to Make Worms Turn Researchers in the US have discovered an intriguing and fun dimension to the nervous system of nematode worms, enabling them to steer the tiny organisms 'like remote-controlled cars.' |
Science News
October 12, 2002 |
A Prized Worm This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine went to researchers who pioneered the use of the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans as an animal model for exploring basic processes involved in the development and behavior of multicellular organisms. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 37
David Bradley |
Chemists Hail a New Antioxidant A new family of antioxidants that are 100 times more effective than Vitamin E could be used at much smaller doses in dietary supplements and cosmetics but provide the same benefits. |
