Histoire évolutive de la lignée humainevignette|redresse=1.7|L'évolution buissonnante des Homininés depuis 10 Ma L'histoire évolutive de la lignée humaine (Hominina) est le processus évolutif conduisant à l'apparition du genre Homo, puis à celle dHomo sapiens (l'Homme actuel). L'histoire évolutive des primates conduit à l'apparition de la famille des hominidés (grands singes), qui aurait divergé de celle des hylobatidés (gibbons) il y a quelque 20 millions d'années (Ma).
Aging brainAging of the brain is a process of transformation of the brain in older age, including changes all individuals experience and those of illness (including unrecognised illness). Usually this refers to humans. Since life extension is only pertinent if accompanied by health span extension, and, more importantly, by preserving brain health and cognition, finding rejuvenating approaches that act simultaneously in peripheral tissues and in brain function is a key strategy for development of rejuvenating technology.
Structural variationGenomic structural variation is the variation in structure of an organism's chromosome. It consists of many kinds of variation in the genome of one species, and usually includes microscopic and submicroscopic types, such as deletions, duplications, copy-number variants, insertions, inversions and translocations. Originally, a structure variation affects a sequence length about 1kb to 3Mb, which is larger than SNPs and smaller than chromosome abnormality (though the definitions have some overlap).
Clone (cell biology)A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell. Clonality implies the state of a cell or a substance being derived from one source or the other. Thus there are terms like polyclonal—derived from many clones; oligoclonal—derived from a few clones; and monoclonal—derived from one clone. These terms are most commonly used in context of antibodies or immunocytes. This concept of clone assumes importance as all the cells that form a clone share common ancestry, which has a very significant consequence: shared genotype.
