Aging Research: Finding Out More
The most active factors in relation to aging research are the quest to create genetic treatments to slow aging. The goal toward understanding ageing in human beings is not only conducting experiments on human beings but also on replica organisms such as the fly, worm, rodents and yeast to find genetic variations that affect ageing.
Although aging research isn't quite ready for humans, it is providing amazing insights into how the body ages. The work suggests that aging is not just a passive wearing down of the body but that there is an active genetic process causes aging.
At birth human beings are endowed with 30,000 active genes and as we age these genes slowly become inactive resulting in a slowing down of bodily functions such as a reduced immunity, slower metabolism, loss of energy and weakened eyesight.
Progress
Aging research is beginning to understand the cellular and molecular basics of aging which are raising hope that treatments to significantly slow or reverse aging will soon be available for humans. The widely publicized age-extending effects of mice through the compound resveratol, found in red wine, are examples of popular ageing research studies. Proctor
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