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Smoking and ultraviolet radiation end the effects of aging. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

The cause of aging: cumulative damage from factors such as radiation and smoking causes low expression of long genes

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Dutch researchers found that this process happens all the time and damages all genes, but the longer the genes, the more likely they are to be damaged because they have more sites. Especially the great damage is to nerve cells due to their inability to regenerate
What is needed to prolong life. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A new competition to stop aging with prizes of 101 million dollars

A new competition to stop aging with prizes of 101 million dollars
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Build muscle and stay young

Researchers have discovered that the skeletal muscle composition of the blind rat is preserved throughout its life, delaying its aging
The colonies of a unique marine creature age in their entirety, rejuvenate again - and God forbid. Botrill flower, photo: Dr. Osherat Ben-Hamo

Phoenix of the sea

The animal that breaks the laws of nature: a new Israeli study reveals that the colonies of the flower botryll, a unique marine creature, age in their entirety - and then return to being young again. The phenomenon received the term "Orshina rhythm" - the Talmudic name of the mythological phoenix
Urban bat (photo: Yuval Barkai)

Bats also lose their hearing but the process happens in a moderate way in relation to their noisy living environment

Two surprising discoveries: contrary to the popular hypothesis, bats do suffer from hearing loss with age, but they apparently have surprising mechanisms that help them slow down the rate of hearing loss
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Age slowly, live longer

A study in C. elegans worms found that a type of small RNA molecule is essential for slowing the rate of aging and prolonging the lives of animals with a damaged reproductive system
African killifish. Illustration: depositphotos.com

delay the diseases of aging

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On aging fish, folding proteins and a new route for the development of medicinal substances
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About the bitter and the sweet in her old age

Is it happy to grow old? And how to grow old? Is it possible to change the way we perceive old age for the better? Prof. Ehud Bodner from the master's degree program in gerontology, answers these questions: Is it happy to grow old? And how to grow old? Is it possible to change the way we perceive old age for the better? Prof. Ehud Bodner from the program for master's studies in gerontology, answers these questions
Intelligence from artificial intelligence and the study of old age. Corona virus. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Using artificial intelligence to find compounds that inhibit aging

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Researchers from the University of Surrey have developed an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying chemical compounds that promote healthier aging - paving a possible path towards pharmaceutical inventions that could extend human lifespan
Dr. Deborah Tober. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Scientists have been able to identify the genes that influence a healthier aging process

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are leading innovative research on understanding the molecular processes in the aging process and have found genes that can predict healthy aging and help prevent diseases
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About aging - and the research that may show how to stop it

Many theories have been proposed in the past - and are still being proposed - as a way to explain the phenomenon of aging. In recent years, a new theory has been added to them that explains aging. Apparently, there is nothing new in this, except that just last week a fascinating study was published that demonstrated for the first time how aging can be reversed in tissues that have undergone appropriate treatment
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Forever young?

The world's first clinical trial of its kind, conducted by researchers from Tel Aviv University and Shamir Hospital (Assaf Harofeh), states that pressure chamber treatment of healthy people in the third age can stop the aging of blood cells
From right to left: Anatoli Meler, Flonia Levy-Adam, Tahani Kedah, Reot Shelgi, Amal Younis, Shani Hadar and Kinneret Rosales-Shergenheim. Photo: Rami Shloush, Technion speakers

For the first time, a study reveals the decline of the protein control system with aging

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The research published in PNAS - the journal of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States - was led by Prof. Reut Shelgi, research colleagues Niv Sabat and Falonia Levy-Adam and doctoral student Amal Younis from the Rapaport Faculty of Medicine
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Innovative treatment in a pressure chamber may improve the cognitive function of healthy elderly people

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A significant decrease in the number of senescent cells (blue spots) in the liver and lung tissues of mice following the drug treatment

Forever young - the lab version

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Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro the human (right) and his robot double (left). Source: Florian Voggeneder / Ars Electronica.

"When the population is aging, there is no choice but to use robots"

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Mysterium - live forever / Tal Rashef

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Exposure to chronic air pollution is equivalent to two years of accelerated aging in terms of cognitive ability. Photo: Wiebrig Krakau.

Aging in a polluted world

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Photomicrograph of senescent cells in a mouse - cells that "retire" and stop dividing, but do not die - are always present and even play some important roles in the body, for example in wound healing. But in aging organs, these cells are not eliminated at the proper rate, and can accumulate and damage Source: Y tambe, Wikimedia.

Get rid of old hair

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Questions for the future of humanity: Will we defeat aging?

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Beta cells of a young (left) and an old person. Photo: Dr. Roni Hellman

Surprising findings in diabetes research: beta cell aging increases insulin secretion

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up the ascending stairs

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A close connection between the biological clocks in our body, and metabolism and nutrition

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Health sciences - can we stop aging? / Karen Weintraub

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The fountain of youth? Researchers have discovered a new class of drugs that delay aging and extend active life in mice

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