If the debate around the powerful new genome-editing tool, Crispr/Cas9, is anything to go by, Parrish's approach to combating ageing won't roll out without significant scrutiny.
The study is the first to link telomere length to longevity in humans and could yield new strategies for combating age-related ills.
Taking into consideration that European Union's population is ageing faster than in most other world regions, combating age- related mental decline along with activating the potential of the elderly is a crucial component of enabling long-term growth and enhancing social cohesion.
In the present study, in vitro free-radical scavenging activities of VRF, as a probable basis of combating ageing and age-related disorders, were evaluated.
Identification of these embryonic factors would allow us to potentially enrich the arsenal of therapeutic tools for combating age-specific degenerative disorders.
However, there is some evidence of a threshold effect, at which exercise becomes less effective in combating age-related increases in arterial stiffness.
Furthermore, ROS have been implicated in several models of aging and age-related disease, and so inhibiting their production may prove to particularly effective in combating age-related muscle wasting (sarcopenia) [ 106- 108].
