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Young people’s blood plasma rejuvenates old mice.

16 November 2016 grant 0

New Scientist has an anti-aging discovery with some grisly ramifications, as researchers find the blood of human teens can make aging bodies young again:

The key to youth appears to be in

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Don’t sleep. Forget. You are growing old.

30 January 2013 grant 0

Nature explores why our aging brains succumb to insomnia and forgetfulness at the same time:

Ageing is associated with the gradual loss of brain cells, sleep disturbances and declining

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Not quite video games for elderly brains, but almost.

8 August 2012 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:

The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants

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Doctor, make me forever young.

18 May 2012 grant 0

Science Daily reaches out its withered hands to hold up the promise of a viral cure for aging:

Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by its director María

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Wearing the senior citizen suit.

6 January 2012 grant 0

That’s what designers will be doing to make stores and furniture and *everything else* comfortable for aging Baby Boomer consumers. Discover looks at the way MIT is putting young… Read the rest “Wearing the senior citizen suit.”

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