Aging

In middle age we begin to lose myelin, the fatty sheath of "insulation" that coats our nerve axons and allows for fast signaling bursts in our brains. So if you want to be the best at anything requiring speedy brain reaction times, you'd better get it in by age 39. Writing in Neurobiology of Aging, Dr. George Bartzokis, professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and colleagues compared how quickly a group of males ranging in age from 23 to 80 could perform a motor task and then correlated their performances to their brains' myelin…

BILLERICA, Massachusetts, October 14 /PRNewswire/ -- - New version enables easier deployment of a wider variety of blazingly-fast "Teramarts(TM)" that work in conjunction with existing enterprise data warehouses A new version of Vertica's grid-based, column-oriented analytic database lets companies meet more aggressive business intelligence service level agreements and give more people faster access to larger volumes of data by making it possible to apply next-generation analytic database technology to a wider variety of workloads. Vertica(R) Analytic Database 2.5 also simplifies co-…

NAPA, California, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- - US$16 Million Cash On Hand and No Debt Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a life sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, announced today that the company continues to maintain a strong, debt-free financial position. Current cash balances are in excess of US$16 Million; US$10 Million of which is invested in fully FDIC insured bank certificates of deposits and US$6 Million on deposit in a money market account with Columbia Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America,…

LONDON, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- - Leveraging consumer trends to drive product innovation in the food, beverage and cosmetics markets Health and Natural Ingredients alternate annual event has returned with a vibrant, innovative programme which aims to tackle to latest technical, legal and market industry challenges. This event covers the hottest topics in the food and beverage industry, making this event a must attend date in the food industry calendar. The programme includes over 60 speakers with companies such as Unilever, Heinz, Hershey's, Ajinomoto, GlaxoSmithKline, L'Oreal, Kerry…

LONDON, September 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Innovative Restaurateur Selects Swyx Technology to Reduce its Operational Costs, Converge its Voice and Data Services and Establish an In-House Contact Centre for its Home Delivery Service. Swyx ( http://www.swyx.com ) a market-leading vendor of Unified Communications for SMEs has been selected by Yo! Sushi ( http://www.yosushi.com ) one of the world's fastest growing restaurant chains to supply an IP telephony solution to replace its aging circuit switched incumbent. The company will upgrade its existing 35 restaurants with the new technology and has…

Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, has introduced Glowelle, a dietary supplement that they say protects and hydrates the inner and outer layers of the skin. Their marketing blurb says it is formulated with a proprietary(naturally) blend of high antioxidant vitamins (like vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E), phtyo-nutrients, botanical and fruit extracts and that drinking it will help fight the signs of aging.Glowelle's antioxidants help defend against the damage caused by free radicals, which are caused by pollution ... and the sun. You know, the sun. Source of all life…

Death is one of the few fundamental inevitabilities of human existence. This event is both fear-invoking and inspiring. This understanding, it seems, shares a shadowy symbiotic relationship with our daily lives. The inevitable outcome of death generates the concept of a limited "time horizon" and creates value in passing time. Each of us, individually, marches toward the dusk of our "time horizon". But... how far is our horizon? And, why do we march there? These questions are neither new nor are they original. They are profound questions that have inspired human existence on many levels -…

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist and leader of the Human Genome Project, has been awarded with the new Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. Modeled after the Nobel and Kyoto Prizes for science, technology, philosophy and the arts, the Inamori Ethics Prize instead honors outstanding international ethical leaders. It is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated exemplary ethical leadership and whose actions and influence have greatly improved the condition of humankind. The…

NAPA, California, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Revolutionary Cytokinin-Based Skincare Is The Next Generation of Skin Rejuvenation Science Senetek PLC (OTC Bulletin Board: SNKTY), a life sciences company engaged in the development of technologies that target the science of healthy aging, announced today the launch of Pyratine-6(TM), representing the next generation of superior skincare products for the correction of visible signs of aging. In the 1990's Senetek developed kinetin, the cytokinin-based active ingredient in the successful Kinerase skincare line, and are now taking cytokinin…

Variation in the gene for one of the receptors for the hormone vasopressin appears to be associated with how human males bond with their partners, according to an international team of researchers. The researchers found that the "334" allele of a common AVPR1A variation, the human version of avpr1a studied in voles, seemed to have negative effects on men's relationship with their spouses. "Our findings are particularly interesting because they show that men who are in a relatively stable relationship of five years of more who have one or two copies of allele 334 appear to be less bonded to…