Can mouse genetics teach us enough about the biology of aging to guide the search for anti-aging medicines that can delay late-life illness? Recent progress gives reason for optimism, with new data showing that changes in single genes can extend average and maximal life span by 40%. Mice with these genetic variants remain healthy, active, and cognitively intact at average ages that correspond t...

E vidence that calorie restriction (CR) retards aging and extends median and maximal life span was fi rst described in the 1930s by McCay et al. [1]. Since then, similar observations have been made in a variety of species including rodents, fi sh, fruit fl ies, worms, and yeast [2]—and although they are not yet defi nitive, results from ongoing longevity studies in monkeys suggest that CR will ...

Bacillus mojavensis PTCC 1696 (a member of Bacillus subtilis group) has been isolated from the Iranian oil field (Masjed-I Soleyman), to examine its ability to produce biosurfactant (lipopeptide type) [28]. The present study was designed to characterize the antibacterial activity of th...

In this work, different kinetic patterns (homographic, exponential-linear and exponential) of hydraulic resistance in ultrafltration process of a colloidal system have been investigated. Exponential kinetic model, as the best approach, was employed for description of dynamic hydraulic resistance of skim milk ultrafltration at different feed flow rates (FR) (10, 30 and 46 L...