Diet and mTor signaling in ageing-related neurodegenerative disease
Dr M J P Simons, Dr S Sweeney
Applications accepted all year round
Reducing food intake robustly increases lifespan in model organisms. When this data is extrapolated to humans, the predicted gain in healthy lifespan beats curing all stroke, diabetes, cancer and cardiac disease.
Impact of diet on cardiovascular responses to acute mental stress
Dr C Rendeiro, Dr JJCS Veldhuijzen van Zanten
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Cardiovascular diseases remain the second cause of premature death in the UK. In particular, mental stress is a known important contributing factor to mechanisms underlying cardiovascular events, with mounting evidence suggesting that mental stress can negatively affect human endothelial function (Poitras et al., 2013).
DTC BIO 13 - Can diet influence natural UV protection?
Dr C Llewellyn
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Over the past two decades the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become an important human model in the fields of genetics, toxicology and developmental biology to study a range of human diseases.
