Kayser and his team quantified the levels of one particular T-cell loop sequence in 195 Dutch volunteers, and plotted them against their biological ages, which ranged from a few weeks to 80 years old.

Some believe that the tradition of birthday candles began in Ancient Greece, when people brought cakes adorned with lit candles to the temple of Artemis, goddess of the hunt.

Birthday Candles Through May 29 at American Airlines Theater, Manhattan; roundabouttheatre.org; Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. Maya Phillips is a critic at large.

The demise of Party City has made business boom for local balloon supply stores, but the impacts of inflation and tariffs offer a challenge to staying afloat.

Those colorful candles burning brightly atop a birthday cake may look lovely, but apparently blowing them out has some pretty disgusting side effects, researchers say. A study in the Journal of ...

Blowing out birthday candles is fun, but your spit is the icing on the cake — quite literally. Scientists say that puckering up and making a wish sends varying amounts of bacteria flying onto ...

Birthday Candles, Noah Haidle's Broadway dramedy starring Debra Messing as a woman who, over the course of the play's 90 minutes ages from 17 to 107, has just about all the right ingredients for ...

COVID-19 ended blowing out birthday candles. Please: Let’s put spitting on cakes in the past. By Madeline Wells , Senior Food Reporter Updated July 27, 2021 1:58 p.m.

A mother has sparked a debate after she gave her other children the opportunity to blow out her daughter’s birthday candles.. Earlier this month, mother of four and vlogger Cecily Bauchmann took ...

Birthday Candles (Community/Arts) Ernestine celebrates her birthdays, from 17 to 101, with her mother’s golden butter cake, five generations of family, countless rituals, and one goldfish.

In emotionally rich ‘Birthday Candles,’ a woman shapes her identity as she bakes her annual cake Kate Fry, playing the heroine of the Northlight Theatre play from youth to centenarian, makes ...