Editors: Natalia Gavrilova and Stacy Tessler Lindau
• The 5th Annual Interdisciplinary Biomeasures Workshop (and first-ever international gathering) will be held June 14th-15th (Thursday-Friday), 2007 in downtown Chicago, IL, USA. Please contact Karl Mendoza: kmendoza@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu or 773-834-4832 for more information.
• Medicine:
Grapes versus gluttony
A compound found in red grapes called resveratrol improves the health
and lifespan of mice on a high calorie diet. This is potentially good
news for overweight humans. Does it bode well for the rest of us too?
[Evolution]
From the Cover: Hereditary family signature of facial expression
by Peleg, G., Katzir, G., Peleg, O., Kamara, M., Brodsky, L.,
Hel-Or, H., Keren, D., Nevo, E.
Although facial expressions of emotion are universal, individual
differences create a facial expression "signature" for each person;
but, is there...
[Psychology]
Programming social, cognitive, and neuroendocrine development by...
by Tang, A. C., Akers, K. G., Reeb, B. C., Romeo, R. D., McEwen, B.
S.
Mildly stressful early life experiences can potentially impact a
broad range of social, cognitive, and physiological functions in
humans, nonhuman...
[Evolution]
Good genes sexual selection in nature
by Byers, J. A., Waits, L.
Whether the mate sampling and choice performed by females in nature
influences offspring performance is a controversial issue in theory...
[Cell_Biology]
Aging may be a conditional strategic choice and not an inevita...
by Watve, M., Parab, S., Jogdand, P., Keni, S.
Aging is known in all organisms that have different somatic and
reproductive cells or in unicellular organisms that divide
asymmetrically....
• Menopause
Therapy Sparks Controversy
To control the
symptoms of menopause, women used to take a synthetic hormone
replacement. But when a study found it increased risk of cancer and
heart disease, some women turned to a controversial alternative, Katie
Couric reports.
• Key
to life? Exercise, says 132-yr-old woman
JOHANNESBURG,
Nov 6 (Reuters Life!) - Throw out the anti-aging food supplements and
forget surgery. A South African woman, who claims to be the world's
oldest living person at 132, advocates fresh food and exercise as the
keys to longevity.
• Study:
Forget All You Know About Sex
British
researchers say the first-ever global study of human sexual behavior
has offered strong evidence to the contrary of many of our most firmly
held beliefs on the matter.
• Coffee
May Protect Against Diabetes
Drinking
caffeinated coffee was found to reduce the risk of developing type 2
diabetes by as much as 60 percent, a study shows.
• Light
Test May Illuminate Diabetes Woes
Doctors may soon
be able to identify people at risk of diabetes
complications simply by shining bright light on a patch of skin below
the elbow.
• Study:
Antiaging Hormone A Bust
New research
shows that elderly people who take it derive little benefit.
• Blood
Markers Predict Risk For Recurrent Stroke And Mortality
People who have
just suffered their first ischemic stroke, a blood clot
in the brain, often have elevated inflammatory biomarkers in their
blood that indicate their likelihood of having another stroke or an
increased risk of dying, according to Columbia University Medical
Center researchers at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
• Brain
flaws 'linked to cot death'
Brain
abnormalities affecting breathing and temperature could increase cot
death risk, a study suggests.
• Family
cancer risk 'without gene'
Women with a
family breast cancer history are at higher risk even without inheriting
faulty genes, a study says.
• Red
wine molecule helps mice live longer
LONDON (Reuters)
- A compound found in red wine and grapes can extend
the lifespan of obese mice and help them enjoy a healthier old age,
scientists said on Wednesday.
• Study:
Divorced Women Have More Illness
Iowa University
study says divorced women suffer chronic stress, more illness
• Study
Says Depression May Weaken Bones
Depression from
ongoing stress may weaken bones, making osteoporosis more likely, a new
study shows.
• Decline
In Adult Smoking Rates Stall; Millions Of Nonsmoking Americans Remain...
After years of
progress in reducing adult smoking rates, a recent study
issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
indicates that the reduction in U.S. adult smoking rates may have
stalled. Between 2004 and 2005, there was no observed change in U.S.
adult smoking rates. According to an article in this week's issue of
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 20.9 percent-45.1
million people-in the United States are current smokers, the same rate
as in 2004.
• Can
Undereating Make You Live Longer?
Calorie-Restriction
Diet Makes Monkeys Look, Act Younger
NIH
Press Releases
NIEHS
Conference will Explore Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer
31 Oct 2006 at
2:35am
National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIEHS
Conference will Explore Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer, October
31, 2006
SIDS Infants
Show Abnormalities In Brain Area Controlling Breathing, Heart Rate
31 Oct 2006 at
3:08am
National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), SIDS
Infants Show Abnormalities In Brain Area Controlling Breathing, Heart
Rate, October 31, 2006
Distinguished
Bioengineer to Present "Natural Products: Challenges and Opport...
24 Oct 2006 at
8:53am
National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM),
Distinguished Bioengineer to Present “Natural Products: Challenges and
Opportunities” at NCCAM's Distinguished Lecture Series, October 23, 2006
Gene Variation
Affects Pain Sensitivity and Risk of Chronic Pain
23 Oct 2006 at
11:32am
National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Gene
Variation Affects Pain Sensitivity and Risk of Chronic Pain, October
22, 2006
NCI Releases
Preliminary Data on Genetic Susceptibility for Prostate Cancer
19 Oct 2006 at
10:43am
National Cancer
Institute (NCI), NCI Releases Preliminary Data on Genetic
Susceptibility for Prostate Cancer, October 19, 2006
NIEHS Allocates
$74 Million to Study Environmental Causes of Disease
18 Oct 2006 at
2:50am
National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NIEHS
Allocates $74 Million to Study Environmental Causes of Disease, October
18, 2006
Gene Linked to
Autism in Families with More Than One Affected Child
18 Oct 2006 at
12:51pm
National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Gene Linked to Autism in
Families with More Than One Affected Child, October 17, 2006
Events
59th
Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America
"Education & The Gerontological Imagination "
Dallas, Texas, USA .
2007
NICHD-NCES Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
First Release Conference to be held May 8th-10th in Bethesda, MD.
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This Newsletter is
supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, National
Institutes of Health (Grant No. 5 P30 AG012857)