Epigenetic clock measures biological age in children
The Epigenetic clock is a useful tool and one of the most effective methods of measuring biological age, which is believed to reflect our “true” biological ...
What does disease smell like?
Greek physician Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) asked students to sniff the air that their patients exhaled to diagnose the disease. Sweet breath, for example, coul ...
Can aging be reversed?
Very promising results were published in bioRxiv, demonstrating the proof of principle of age reversibility through epigenetics an particularly DNA methylatio ...
The skull of the oldest species of Australopithecus found!
Scientists discovered an almost complete skull of the Australopithecus anamensis, who lived 3.8 million years ago in Northeast Ethiopia.Artist's reconstruc ...
Epigenetic clock test suggests that it is possible to reverse aging with a special intervention
Nine volunteers, aged 51 to 65, took a cocktail containing three common drugs daily during the year. The study goal was to examine whether it is possible to re ...
Epigenetic age in the mouse?
Why do we need to know how do mice age?The mouse is an excellent model for studying not only human diseases but also the effect of the environment on the e ...
A diet that will help you prevent hypertension
DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. This is very important, as according to some reports, hypertension affects around 50 million people in ...
DNA methylation in the blood can predict your death date
Since ancient times, people have been trying to predict their own or other deaths.Scientists from the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research ...