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“They found that women categorized as having sufficient vitamin D concentrations had better survival outcomes than women categorized as deficient. Supplemental vitamin D intake, body mass index, and race/ethnicity had the greatest influence on vitamin D concentrations, and genetic variants had only a minor influence.”

“However, if high AGE levels accumulate in the tissues and blood, they can become pathogenic, driving many chronic diseases, including diabetes, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and kidney failure.”

“The adverse effects were stronger in women who had the APOE4 gene, a genetic variation that increases the risk for Alzheimer's. Air collected over the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles led to 60% more brain amyloid plaque in mice.”

“Extra-virgin olive oil protects nerve cell structure and function, improves learning and memory, and reduces the amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain in mice genetically engineered to get Alzheimer's disease.”

“FTA: > Unlike earlier diagnostics that study one gene at a time, this test rapidly sifts through all of the 37-million base pairs in a person's 20,000 genes to tease out the single DNA change causing a rare genetic disorder.”

“After determining the participants' relative brain age, they studied the association of relative brain age with cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and genetic variants. They found that regular (daily or nearly daily) cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption increased relative brain aging.”

“Because the CRISPR system adds DNA snippets sequentially, the position of each snippet in the array could be used to determine the original frame to which the snippet belonged. Being able to store information (other than genetic) in DNA is kinda crazy!”

“Several preclinical trials have shown that CRISPR can correct faulty genes that cause devastating diseases such as muscular dystrophy to blindness. The CRISPR/Cas9 genetic engineering technique has now entered the clinical arena with a few clinical trials in humans in-progress and on the horizon.”

“Risks for impaired neurodevelopment were greater among children of farmworkers, who experience higher exposures, and children with genetic susceptibility factors that reduce capacity to detoxify organophosphate pesticides.”

“It tackles fundamental questions, like what genetic and metabolic adaptations occur with vigorous exercise and how it can contribute to combating heart's age-related changes. We also unpack how these rigorous exercises affect glucose transport, mitochondrial health, and brain health at an intricate level.”