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Researchers discover how complexities in diet impacts aging
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Penn State researchers may have discovered another layer of complexity in the enigma of how nutrition affects ageing.
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Study finds association between dementia risk, size of white blood cell te
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Shorter telomeres on the ends of white blood cell chromosomes were discovered to be associated with an increased risk of dementia.
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Dementia risk is linked with size of white blood cell telomeres: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers found that shorter telomeres on the ends of white blood cell chromosomes may indicate an increased risk of dementia.
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Study finds damaged telomeres in elders might increase SARS-CoV-2 suscepti
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], December 4 (ANI): The expression of the cell receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ACE2 which is essential for mediating cell entry of the virus, increases in the lungs of ageing mice and humans, according to a group of Italian and American researchers led by Fabrizio d'Ad
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Damaged telomeres in elders might increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2: S
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], December 3 (ANI): According to a group of Italian and American researchers led by Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, the expression of the cell receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ACE2 which is essential for mediating cell entry of the virus, increases in the lungs of ageing mi
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Here's what controls the tips of our chromosomes
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 28 (ANI): In a new, a research team from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC; Portugal), led by Jose Escandell and Miguel Godinho Ferreira, discovered a key aspect of the regulation of telomeres – structures that appear at the tips of our chromosomes.
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Blocking these two enzymes could make cancer cells mortal
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 17 (ANI): Scientists have found two specific antioxidant enzymes that are linked to making cancer cells mortal.
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