Sentences with phrase «between biological aging»

Blackman I would step back and define the difference between biological aging and chronological aging.

«In the future, we will need to carry out studies of the same individuals over an extended period of time to determine cause - and - effect relationships between biological age and sleep disorders.»

Not exact matches

According to the research of anthropologist Kathryn Dettwyler, the natural age of weaning for humans from a biological perspective would be between 2.5 and 7 years.

The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme (NDA), a collaboration between five of the UK's Research Councils - the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Medical Research Council, has today announced the second round of successful applications to be funded under the programme.

They analysed genetic variants with known effects on height and body mass index (BMI) from 119,000 individuals aged between 40 and 70 in the UK Biobank — a database of biological information from half a million British adults — using a technique called mendelian randomisation.

A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences finds new correlations between a Mediterranean diet and healthy aging outcomes — while also underscoring the need for careful approaches to the use of data in order to measure the diet's potential benefits.

A few people showed virtually no aging over 12 years, a few showed three years of biological aging per year lived, and the rest fell in between.

Now, a Harvard team has discovered a link between aging and a core biological process known as RNA splicing, which may be manipulated to not only increase our lifespan, but help us stay healthier for longer.

Based on this comparison, the researchers derived a measure that they call differential aging, which is the difference between an individual's apparent (or biological) age and his or her true (or chronological) age.

For instance, radiocarbon dating determines the age of biological remains based on the ratio between the carbon isotopes (atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons) carbon - 12 and carbon - 14 it holds - this proportion changes as radioactive carbon - 14 breaks down while stable carbon - 12 does not.

In a general sense, FP timers can be used in any situation where one wants to understand the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular structure and a particular biological event (trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression, development of a cell structure, etc).

From 322,972 women between the ages of 25 and 70, the team of researchers gathered data on how old the subjects were at various female biological events — first period, giving birth, breast - feeding, menopause, etc. — and other factors that would have affected these events, like taking oral contraceptives.

A recent study by researchers at Brigham Young University looked to better understand the relationship between exercise and «biological age».

- The difference between your chronological vs biological age (the good news is you can turn back your biological age!)

First, middle childhood, especially the ages between 10 and 12 years, is characterized by cognitive, social, emotional, and biological changes that set the stage for development in adolescence and adulthood (Eccles 1999).

The lack of an effect of mother's age for this more restricted sample of families with both biological parents contrasts with the simple association found between mother's age and risk of poor father - child relationship for the larger sample of couple families (see section 4.4).

At 10 months of age, one - fifth of children born in Scotland between March 2010 and February 2011 had a non-resident biological parent.