House bill wants to give Filipino centenarians P100,000 MANILA, Philippines – Heres a possible incentive to live long until youre 100. The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to grant Filipino centenarians various rewards and incentives, including a cash gift of P100,000 from Malacaang. If the Senate agrees and it turns into a law, you will also get on your birthday a letter of congratulations from no less than the President of the Philippines
Manila, Philippines – The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that would reward senior citizens a P100,000 cash reward but only if the elderly reaches the age of 100.
Public release date: 28-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Diane Swanbrow swanbrow@umich.edu 734-647-4416 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research, has added genetic information from 12,500 consenting participants to the online genetics database of the National Institutes of Health
By a GenomeWeb staff reporter NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) The National Institute on Aging has added genetic data from thousands of consenting individuals to a large-scale, long-term national study of older Americans, enabling researchers to analyze medical, sociological, and genetic information as they study age-related issues.
For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 27, 2012 The Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans, has added genetic information from consenting participants to its massive database. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, and conducted by scientists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the HRS is the premier database for studying retirement and the baby boom generation. On March 15, genetic data from approximately 13,000 individuals were posted to dbGAP, the NIH’s online genetics database.
22 March 2012 Last updated at 22:41 ET By Melissa Hogenboom BBC News The common fruit fly and human beings may look nothing alike but appearances can be deceiving.
CLEARWATER, FL–(Marketwire -03/19/12)- Biostem U.S., Corporation (OTCQB: BOSM.PK – News) (Pinksheets: BOSM.PK – News) (Biostem, the Company), a fully reporting public company in the stem cell regenerative medicine sciences sector, announced today the addition of Perinatologist Sanford M. Lederman, MD to its Scientific and Medical Board of Advisors (SAMBA). As Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, Dr
05-03-2012 01:40 Claudio Franceschi, Full professor of Immunology, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna Director of the Inderdepartmental Centre “L. Galvani” (CIG), University of Bologna 1967 – graduated in Medicine at University of Bologna.
The gravitational pull of individual friendships can have an enormous cumulative effect on the quality of our lives. With growing numbers of people living alone, either by choice or circumstance, friendships can occupy the emotional space that other people fill with spouses or significant others. Friends can link us to broader social networks and help enrich our lives
The Genetics Society of America’s 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 7-11 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, will showcase diverse efforts to understand basic biological processes through the easy-to-study fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and other insects. Drosophila provides the ideal model system for studying biological questions, including many with direct application to human health.
By Mark Underwood If you’ve ever wondered what people who live to be 100 have in common, science may have some answers. When you read stories about groups of people living fit and healthy beyond a hundred years, you can’t help but wonder, what are they doing?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have enormous consequences for human longevity. Bill Banyai, an optical physicist at Complete Genomics, has helped make that happen
Newswise CHICAGO, IL March 8, 2012 The Genetics Society of Americas 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 7-11 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, will showcase diverse efforts to understand basic biological processes through the easy-to-study fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and other insects. Drosophila provides the ideal model system for studying biological questions, including many with direct application to human health. Three of the twelve plenary sessions illustrate the breadth of topics that will be presented at the meeting: metabolism, aging, and monarch butterfly migration.
Public release date: 8-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Phyllis Edelman pedel@genetics-gsa.org 301-351-0896 Genetics Society of America CHICAGO, IL March 8, 2012 The Genetics Society of America’s 53rd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, March 7-11 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, will showcase diverse efforts to understand basic biological processes through the easy-to-study fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and other insects. Drosophila provides the ideal model system for studying biological questions, including many with direct application to human health.