Aging

The effect of advanced paternal age on offspring risk is not explained by parental predisposition for schizophrenia, according to a study in Biological Psychiatry Philadelphia, March 26, 2019 Advanced paternal age increases the risk in…

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania researchers are developing a smart wrist-worn device for monitoring of atrial fibrillation - a condition, which if left untreated can lead to serious health complications and even…

New method could enable faster study of strategies to combat age-related diseases LA JOLLA, CA - March 25, 2019 - An enzyme-blocking molecule can extend the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms by as much as 45 percent, largely by…

Study finds progression of dementia and Alzheimer's signature tangles are much faster in people with untreated diabetes Patients on medication for type 2 diabetes may be keeping Alzheimer's disease away. USC Dornsife psychologists have…

Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, March 25, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence, and the Scheibye-Knudsen Lab,…

NEW ORLEANS--Changing when you eat rather than what you eat may prove to be a dietary intervention against breast cancer, suggests a new mouse study to be presented Saturday at ENDO 2019, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New…

NEW ORLEANS--Older men tend to have lower biological age if they have higher levels of sex hormones, particularly the estradiol form of estrogen, a large new study from Australia finds. The study results will be presented on Sunday at…

NEW ORLEANS--Walking downhill after eating can reduce bone resorption, the process in which old bone is broken down and removed from the body, in postmenopausal women with diabetes, according to research to be presented Sunday, March 24…

Nanocomposites replace animal tissue in new valve designCredit: UBCO Researchers at UBC have created the first-ever nanocomposite biomaterial heart-valve developed to reduce or eliminate complications related to heart transplants.…

March 24, 2019 - Anyone who trains for a marathon knows that individual running workouts add up over time to yield a big improvement in physical fitness. So, it should not be surprising that the cognitive benefits from workouts also…