Skincare

Oct 04 2026

Daily News

Where Next For Present Stem Cell Therapies?

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First generation stem cell therapies have become widespread; they are readily accessed in medical tourism clinics, and are also available for a range of issues in more regulated parts of...

Oct 04 2026

Daily News

Polyamines from the Gut Microbiome Affect Life Span in Flies

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The commensal microbes of the gut microbiome generate a range of metabolites that are beneficial or necessary to cell function. Levels of a number of these metabolites have been shown...

Oct 03 2026

Of Interest

Healthspan May Not Be a Usefully Robust Metric for Progress in Rejuvenation Biotechnology

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The effects of calorie restriction and even larger effects of growth hormone receptor knockout on the lifespan of mice have proven to be hard to beat. In large part, this...

Oct 03 2026

Daily News

APOEε2 Pericytes Provide a More Resilient Blood-Brain Barrier

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Why is the APOEε2 variant of the APOE gene associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and slightly longer life expectancy? Past research has investigated the role of APOE...

Oct 02 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Conservative View of the Geroscience Endeavor

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An archly conservative viewpoint links establishment academia (“this thing you are doing has not yet been proven beyond all doubt to work”) to the thought leadership of Big Pharma (“this...

Oct 02 2026

Daily News

Possible Approaches to Engineering Better Therapeutic Delivery of Mitochondria

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Mitochondrial transplantation as a form of therapy to improve mitochondrial function in aged tissues has barely started as a going concern, and only a few patients have been treated in...

Oct 01 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Don’t View mTOR as a Single Pharmaceutical Target, as Context Matters

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Of the many varied approaches to mimic some of the beneficial metabolic response to calorie restriction, mTOR inhibition is arguably the most well studied. Countless animal studies have been conducted,...

Oct 01 2026

Daily News

The Peptide Catestatin Reduces Tau Pathology in Mice

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Later stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies are characterized by the aggregation of altered tau protein, and a toxic surrounding biochemistry that provokes inflammation and destroys neurons. So far...

Sep 30 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

PD-L1 Blockade in the Brain Restores Measures of Glial Cell Function

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PD-L1 found on the surface of cells is a well known immune checkpoint protein. When it binds to the receptor PD-1 found on the surface of T cells and B...

Sep 30 2026

Daily News

Raman Microscopy as a Potential Basis for Non-Invasive Assessment of the Burden of Senescent Cells

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Researchers here provide a proof of concept for the use of Raman spectroscopy to non-invasively measure the burden of senescent cells in an imaged tissue. This works because Raman imaging...