#lifespan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lifespan, aggregated by home.social.
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Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Scientists Discover a Surprising Reason Intermittent Fasting Extends Life
Intermittent fasting has long been linked to longer life, but new research points to an unexpected driver behind its benefits. Credit: Stock How the body efficiently shifts metabolism after fasting m…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #aging #lifespan #metabolism #nutrition #UTSouthwesternMedicalCenter
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Scientists Discover a Surprising Reason Intermittent Fasting Extends Life https://www.diningandcooking.com/2616491/scientists-discover-a-surprising-reason-intermittent-fasting-extends-life/ #aging #diet #lifespan #metabolism #nutrition #UTSouthwesternMedicalCenter
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• Cognitive Scaffolding: Examining the dynamic plasticity of the adult brain through the lens of the famous "London Taxi Driver" study and the Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition (STAC).Aging is not an inevitability that simply happens to you; it is a malleable interplay of biology, environment, and daily habits. Join us as we shift the question from "Will I live?" to "How well will I live?"
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• The Cellular Mechanics of Choice: How specific behaviors like caloric restriction and a Mediterranean diet don't just "feel good"—they actually trigger cellular repair modes and signal enzymes like telomerase to rebuild the protective caps on your DNA.##ageing
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Key themes:• The Population Rectangle: How modern sanitation, pharmacology, and nutrition have shifted the human population from a "pyramid" of many young and few old to a "rectangle" where the majority of people survive to advanced age.
• Primary vs. Secondary Aging: Understanding the difference between universal biological wear and tear (primary) and the damage caused by lifestyle choices and environmental exposures (secondary).
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Maximizing Your Health Span
In this deep-dive exploration of gerontology and demographic history, we unpack the critical difference between life expectancy (a statistical average) and maximum lifespan (the biological limit of the human machine). -
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In this episode, we compare ancient perspectives on aging with the unprecedented global demographic shifts happening today. Using Nancy A. Pachana’s Aging: A Very Short Introduction as our guide, we will dissect how the hardware for a long life has always been in our DNA and how the lifestyle choices you make today directly dictate your long-term health span. -
Minimal #Options #Problems : Medium
Faster #Ticking of ‘#BiologicalClock’ #Predicts shorter #Lifespan : Nature
Want to #Understand the current #State of #AI? Check out these #Charts. : Tech Review
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Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738
#HackerNews #Sunbathing #Benefits #Lifespan #Health #Tips #Unexpected #Findings
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Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738
#HackerNews #Sunbathing #Benefits #Lifespan #Health #Tips #Unexpected #Findings
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Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738
#HackerNews #Sunbathing #Benefits #Lifespan #Health #Tips #Unexpected #Findings
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Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738
#HackerNews #Sunbathing #Benefits #Lifespan #Health #Tips #Unexpected #Findings
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Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpected-sunbathers-live-longer-201606069738
#HackerNews #Sunbathing #Benefits #Lifespan #Health #Tips #Unexpected #Findings
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Wherein, then, is your grievance? You are not ejected from the city [life] by any unjust judge or tyrant, but by the selfsame Nature which brought you into it; just as when an actor is dismissed by the manager who engaged him.
“But I have played no more than three of the five acts.” Just so; in your drama of life, three acts are all the play. Its point of completeness is determined by him who formerly sanctioned your creation, and today sanctions your dissolution. Neither of those decisions lay within yourself.
Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go.
[τί οὖν δεινόν, εἰ τῆς πόλεως ἀποπέμπει σε οὐ τύραννος οὐδὲ δικαστὴς ἄδικος, ἀλλ̓ ἡ φύσις ἡ εἰσαγαγοῦσα, οἷον εἰ κωμῳδὸν ἀπολύοι τῆς σκηνῆς ὁ παραλαβὼν στρατηγός;—ἀλλ̓ οὐκ εἶπον τὰ πέντε μέρη, ἀλλὰ τὰ τρία.—καλῶς εἶπας: ἐν μέντοι τῷ βίῳ τὰ τρία ὅλον τὸ δρᾶμά ἐστι. τὸ γὰρ τέλειον ἐκεῖνος ὁρίζει ὁ τότε μὲν τῆς συγκρίσεως. νῦν δὲ τῆς διαλύσεως αἴτιος: σὺ δὲ ἀναίτιος ἀμφοτέρων. ἄπιθι οὖν ἵλεως: καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἀπολύων ἵλεως.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 36 (12.36) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8281…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #actor #curtain #death #departure #direction #drama #exit #grace #gracefulexit #life #lifespan #living #mortality #peace #purpose #serenity #stage #stoicism
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
O man! as a citizen thou hast lived, and conversed in this great city the world. Whether just for so many years, or no, what is it unto thee? Thou hast lived (thou mayest be sure) as long as the laws and orders of the city required; which may be the common comfort of all.
[Ἄνθρωπε, ἐπολιτεύσω ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ταύτῃ πόλει: τί σοι διαφέρει, εἰ πέντε ἔτεσιν ἢ τρισί; τὸ γὰρ κατὰ τοὺς νόμους ἴσον ἑκάστῳ.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 36 (12.36) (AD 161-180) [tr. Casaubon (1634), 12.27]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8280…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #death #destiny #equality #existence #life #lifespan #living #mortality #naturalcourse #nature #purpose
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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The longer I live, the more urgent it seems to me to endure and transcribe the whole dictation of existence up to its end, for it might just be the case that only the very last sentence contains that small and possibly inconspicuous word through which everything we had struggled to learn and everything we had failed to understand will be transformed suddenly into magnificent sense.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1963) German poet
Letter (1913-12-21) to Ilse Erdman [tr. Baer (2005)]More about this quote: wist.info/rilke-rainer-maria/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RainerMariaRilke #experience #life #lifespan #living #meaningoflife #understanding #mortality #death
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
[Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
[Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
[Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Every time a man laffs he takes a kink out ov the chain ov life, and thus lengthens it.
[Every time a man laughs he takes a kink out of the chain of life, and thus lengthens it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82540/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #goodcheer #goodhumor #goodlife #humor #laughter #lifespan #living #longlife #senseofhumor
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116138358977573385
What happens to all the man-made #satellites in #Earth's #orbit, of which approximately 15,000 are active, while the #lifespan of a satellite is usually only a few years? L. Revell et al. (2026) express concern in their #Conversation #article that the #throwawaymentality is causing so many decommissioned satellites to finally land in the #outeratmosphere that their #fragments and burnt #dust are #exacerbating #climatechange and #ozonedepletion.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruíz de Santayana y Borrás]
Essay (1916 ca.), “War Shrines,” Soliloquies in England, ch. 24 (1922)More about this quote: wist.info/santayana-george/344…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #santayana #georgesantayana #death #enjoyment #fun #life #lifespan #mortality
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A quotation from Robert Penn Warren
You live through time, that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History, and you do not live your life, but somehow, your life lives you, and you are, therefore, only what History does to you.
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) American poet, novelist, literary critic
Band of Angels, ch. 6 (1955)More about this quote: wist.info/warren-robert-penn/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertpennwarren #agency #destiny #history #humancondition #humanity #life #lifespan #living #meaning #meaningoflife #time
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“I’ve never seen Death actually at work.”
“Not many have,” said Albert. “Not twice, at any rate.”Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 4, Mort (1987)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8191…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #mort #death #experience #fatality #lifespan #mortality #uniqueness
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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New study in Science suggests genetics might account for 50-55% of human lifespan, a significant shift from previous beliefs. Learn how genes and environment interact for longevity. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/science/genetics-longevity-lifespan-study-q5v8ltyk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Genetics #Lifespan #Ageing #Health #Science
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Cresce l’attenzione sulle terapie anti-invecchiamento, anche attraverso una nuova filosofia chiamata "vitalismo".
Tra sperimentazioni audaci e dibattiti etici, la scienza esplora come allungare la vita in salute.
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`We report that plasma concentrations of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and neurofilament light (NfL) become exponentially higher from ages 2 to 85 in cross-sectional samples, serving as neuronal death/damage biomarkers across the lifespan.`
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00598-1
#biomarker #lifespan #aging #biology #ubiquitin #apoptosis #neuron #neuronal #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #disease #brain
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`We report that plasma concentrations of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and neurofilament light (NfL) become exponentially higher from ages 2 to 85 in cross-sectional samples, serving as neuronal death/damage biomarkers across the lifespan.`
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00598-1
#biomarker #lifespan #aging #biology #ubiquitin #apoptosis #neuron #neuronal #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #disease #brain
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`We report that plasma concentrations of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and neurofilament light (NfL) become exponentially higher from ages 2 to 85 in cross-sectional samples, serving as neuronal death/damage biomarkers across the lifespan.`
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00598-1
#biomarker #lifespan #aging #biology #ubiquitin #apoptosis #neuron #neuronal #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #disease #brain
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`We report that plasma concentrations of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and neurofilament light (NfL) become exponentially higher from ages 2 to 85 in cross-sectional samples, serving as neuronal death/damage biomarkers across the lifespan.`
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00598-1
#biomarker #lifespan #aging #biology #ubiquitin #apoptosis #neuron #neuronal #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #disease #brain
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`We report that plasma concentrations of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and neurofilament light (NfL) become exponentially higher from ages 2 to 85 in cross-sectional samples, serving as neuronal death/damage biomarkers across the lifespan.`
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(25)00598-1
#biomarker #lifespan #aging #biology #ubiquitin #apoptosis #neuron #neuronal #neuroscience #neurodegeneration #disease #brain
