Sentences with phrase «other organisms age»

The Ellison Medical Foundation supports basic biomedical research, with a current focus on understanding how humans and other organisms age, and on defining the fundamental biological mechanisms that prevent age - related diseases and disabilities.

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Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

The sense of smell may be linked to the cellular ageing process in many other organisms — even people.

And according to a third theory, as organisms age they deteriorate and must spend more energy to repair cell damage — to the detriment of other essential physical functions.

Studies of the organisms that lived there — and may still — will provide insight into life during the ice ages and on other planets, scientists say.

Yin and other scientists conducting research in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate tissue.

Finch's ideas about senescence from his grad school days have also held up: The popularity of the Hayflick model has declined as other research questioned its relevance to aging in whole organisms, and recent studies in long - lived nematodes have confirmed Finch's hunch that brain hormones control aging (see Johnson Review).

With the marine fossils grouped by age, the collection shows a dramatic 65 - 70 % reduction in the number of species living in the Antarctic 66 million years ago — coinciding exactly with the time when the dinosaurs and many other groups of organisms worldwide became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Research in mice, fruit flies, worms and other lab organisms has turned up many potential causes of aging.

Coffman and other scientists working in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate tissue.

Rieger and other scientists working in the institution's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Medicine study tissue repair, regeneration and aging in a diverse range of organisms that have robust mechanisms to repair and regenerate lost and damaged tissues.

«While it is important that we fully understand the modification that we make to crops and other genetically - modified organisms, to ban GMOs completely will relegate countries to the dark ages of science.

In today's modern age, technology can easily replicate biological processes seen in humans and other complex organisms.

Additionally, aging of the organism as a whole is modulated by hormonal signals produced by neurons and other tissues.

Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that a calorie restriction of 30 to 60 percent of ad libitum intake increases the life span by similar amounts in a range of organisms including yeast, roundworms and rodents, while simultaneously decreasing or delaying the occurrence of age related diseases such as numerous cancers (including lymphomas, breast and prostate cancers), hypertension, stroke, diabetes, nephropathy, autoimmune disorders and other risks factors for cardiovascular disease (3,4).

In a bad scenario many kittens of different ages from different litters (and thus probably exposure to different viruses and organisms which will be shared with the other vulnerable kittens) are kept in crowded and unhygienic environments, without being vaccinated, and perhaps not getting the appropriate nutrition for kittens.