Three scientists who revealed how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. The body clock – or circadian rhythm – is the reason we want to sleep at night, but it also drives huge changes in behaviour and body function. The US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and…
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As many of you know by now, IAS carries a very comprehensive range of peptide bioregulators. These are designed to ensure that particular areas of the body are working to their best ability. For example Professor Khavinson and his team from the St Petersburg Institute of Biogerontology discovered that each organ or gland has a…
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Telomeres are the caps on the end of chromosomses that get shorter each time a cell divides, up until the point where the cell simply fails to function anymore and dies off. These telomeres are the topic of much research as many researchers have linked the lengths of them to chances of living longer –…
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