Senescence

When it comes to the Marks Of Time: These Factors Give Away Your True Age, one area people often ignore is the neck. However, the neck provides someone with a great deal of information about a person's actual age. For this reason, every person needs to pay more attention to the neck when they are applying moisturizer, sun screen and other skin care products. Why is this so important? What Signs of Aging Are Typically Seen on the Neck? People often develop lines across the neck as they age. This…

I am in no way a renowned geneticist, my interests are closely aligned with literature and film; however, there is one problem that everyone experiences that I would love to solve. Aging. I know it's outrageous to believe I could solve something that seems so natural, but since I was a kid I was always fascinated by genes. In one documentary I saw about the genes of fruit flies when I was younger mentioned that the burning of the telomeres due to stressors was the reason for aging. Since then…

In the article Role of Telomeres in Aging, HoJun Kweon and HyoJu Kweon describe the effects of shortened telomeres on cellular aging. Inside the nucleus of a cell, all genes are arranged in two strands of DNA called chromosomes. In order to help elongate and protect the genetic material of cells as well as make it possible for cell division to occur, telomeres are at the ends of the DNA. Because they modify cellular responses based on hereditary and environmental factors, things such as…

Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome, or most commonly known as Progeria, is a rare disease that is characterized by rapid and premature aging that begins in childhood. The condition does not manifest itself until after the first year of life when growth rate begins to slow down significantly. In 1886, Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson made note of a young boy with “congenital absence of hair and mammary glands with atrophic condition of the skin and its appendages” (Hutchinson, 1886). He thought it to be…

Pathophysiology of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome In order to conduct genetic research studies in hopes of finding a cure for the fatal disease progeria, one must understand how the disease affects the human body. Patients diagnosed with progeria demonstrate clinical signs of accelerated aging, including skin atrophy, osteoporosis, loss of subcutaneous fat and muscle, arthritis, poor growth, and alopecia. These manifestations are presented as a result of defects in the body’s processing…

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a rare genetic mutation that causes children to age rapidly and die at a young age. “Progeria” is derived from Greek and translates to prematurely old. It is a mutation in the LMNA gene, which produces the Lamin A protein. The Lamin A protein is responsible for the support of the nucleus, In a HGPS free person, the nucleus produces Lamin A properly and is strong and stable, but in someone who has Progeria the cell produces progerin which makes the…

The Causes of Cancer Cancer is one of the top leading deaths in the world today. It contains many diseases in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, and will continue to grow further. There are more than a hundred types of cancer. These types have many leading causes, some of them being radiation, air pollution, and genetics. One cause of cancer is radiation. Most people think of radiation as nuclear bombs or…

In the past years, cancer has been a common reason for death. Research shows that the older you get the more risk you have of getting cancer. There are current trends about cancer specifically related to age. I am writing this essay to explain these current trends. The current trends about cancer specifically related to age are increasing. One trend that is increasing is life expectancy at birth by race and sex. In Document I, the graph shows that a black man from ages 60-70 has an increasing…

My Father’s Passing On March 13, 1994 I lost my farther to congestive heart disease, he was 60, he died in his home. He was disabled by the time he was 55. He had Medicaid for health insurance. He died after being hospitalized for two weeks due to low blood pressure, 80/35. His blood pressure never improved during his stay. I feel he was sent home to die. He lived about a week after being released. I feel he only lived that long do to the fact when he was released from the hospital I was in…

Catching Cancer Early Do you aware about the most dangerous and deadly diseases that exist in our life? Surely, there are many terrifying diseases that attack people and lead to the death such as HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), Ebola, and Cancer. Therefore, this essay is going to inform you about the most risky disease which is cancer, the causes and the symptoms of cancer, and about the new technology or way which use to detect or catch cancer. What is Cancer? Cancer is known as the most…