Free Radicals and Aging Faster
“Free radicals” are a special type of atom that have been linked to many age-related diseases. They form…
Aging
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Editorial (Issue 138): Pondering the Metaphysical
Our most immediate perceptions of the world around us cause us to understandably focus on what is readily…
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Alzheimer’s disease is “an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, eventually even the…
Open Systems to Avoid Decay
Why do natural systems in our universe age? Why do social systems cause errors? Why do both die?…
Science Square (Issue 98)
Sequence Integration in the Brain Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences. Jin…
A Miraculous Mechanism: DNA Repair
We live in a world full of technological devices, instruments and machines. Even if we buy them from…
Aging
I will start with the cliché: “man is born, grows, ages, and finally dies.” So this cycle of…