Lifestyle

The two step process works by forcing cancer cells into a dying state called senescence before wiping them out using a process called senolysis.

Due to the rise of climate change, there is now a need for everyone, everywhere to improve their personal level of eco-friendliness and sustainability. Businesses need to do the same, to ensure that their buildings and staff aren’t contributing to the high levels of pollution and waste within London. Fortunately, many businesses have started to do this already, working alongside energy and sustainability consultants to create low energy, high performance buildings. Companies across the capital are beginning to understand the...

And the effect continues after conception, meaning that damage can be done before they know they are pregnant.

Targeting these three interventions could have a massive effect on mortality around the world, the authors claim.

Those whose body clocks dictate going to bed late are often left sleepy in the day, eating badly with depression and stress.

Anyone who doesn’t have insurance is begging for trouble. According to Murphy’s Law, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” The unspoken corollary is that it will happen at the worst possible moment. Call it the perversity of the universe if you like, but anyone over the age of 30 has seen this unyielding law of nature in operation, probably on more than one occasion. Life insurance has been around since the early 1700s. Since then it has grown...

Millennials are reviving a string of traditional tasks once destined for the history books, according to research. A study into the traditional skills across generations found young adults are adept at skills such as framing pictures, calligraphy and knitting. Crafting handwritten letters to keep in touch with loved ones is also among the tasks making a comeback. Thirteen per cent are even learning woodwork and carpentry – and hand-making items such as tables, chairs, and bookshelves. The study also found...

A lifesaving world-first device that can keep a human liver functioning outside the body for 24 hours has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. OrganOx, from Oxford, have created the ‘metra’, which mimics the environment of the human body by constantly streaming warm oxygenated blood through the disembodied liver. The invention breaks with 40 years of traditional organ preservation in ice, doubling the time that organs can be preserved prior to transplantation, and is set to save countless lives. It...

Junk food contains chemicals that can cause a potentially fatal reaction to eggs, peanuts, milk or other products.