Recent Posts Tagged With 'cellular aging'

• How to Avoid Getting Age Spots

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 13:30 in cellular aging

  Age spots, also known as liver spots, are common in fair-skinned people over 50 years of age.   Step 1   Use sunscreen when you go out, paying particular attention to your face and hands. Age spots are caused by a lifetime of exposure to th...

• Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

  Posted on Monday April 23rd, 2007 at 07:30 in cellular aging

  Three separate studies confirm a gene that suppresses tumor cell growth also plays a key role in aging. The researchers found increasing concentration, or expression, of the gene p16INK4a in older cells; these aging cells worked poorly compared t...