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Entries from September 2008

Greater insulin sensitivity associated with human longevity

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

A study, published in the Sept. 16th issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reports an association between genetic variation of the human homologue of DAF-16, FOXO3, to human longevity. Bradley J. Willcox and colleagues chose several genes in the human insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway and studied the genetic variance among Japanese American [...]

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