Month: May 2020

May 23 2020

Daily News

Kingsley Advani on Investing in the Longevity Industry

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Kingsley Advani is one of the more active angel investors in the growing longevity industry. This is still a young industry, and like many of people involved, whether as entrepreneurs...

May 22 2020

2020, Anti-Aging, Body Treatments, Necks

The Latest on Neck Tightening (#1/2)

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Thank you!!  Okay…..so this a really interesting area and very much in the news everywhere.   And….like anything that seems easy with not too much money, a lot of it isn’t...

May 22 2020

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Videos from the 2019 Longevity Forum in London

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I am a few months late in noting this: videos from last year’s Longevity Forum, one of the events in the Longevity Week held in London in November 2019, in...

May 22 2020

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Certain p53 Sequence Changes are Indicative of Species Longevity

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Scientists here expand upon prior research indicating that longer-lived species tend to exhibit certain types of sequence difference in the tumor suppressor gene p53 – a gene also involved in...

May 22 2020

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The Latest on Hyaluronan in Naked Mole-Rat Longevity

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Naked mole-rats live nine times as long as similarly sized rodents, and are near immune to cancer. Researchers have for some years investigated the biochemistry of this species, in search...

May 21 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Cellular Senescence in Lung Disease

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Today’s open access paper is a review of what is known of the role of cellular senescence in lung disease. With the development of senolytic therapies that can selectively destroy...

May 21 2020

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Exercise Acts Through Wnt Signaling to Slow Brain Aging in Rats

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Researchers here report on the application of various forms of exercise program to aged rats, followed by observing the effects on age-related cognitive impairment and related changes in the biochemistry...

May 21 2020

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Better Vaccines for Older People are a Poor Alternative to Better Immune Systems for Older People

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The paper here offers a good overview of recent research and development aimed at improving the effectiveness of vaccines in old people. Vaccines are only poorly effective in the old...

May 20 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

SYK Inhibitors as a Novel Class of Senolytics, Mechanisms of Action Yet to Be Determined

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Senescent cells accumulate with age, and this accumulation is an important contributing cause of aging. These errant cells secrete a potent mix of signal molecules that spur chronic inflammation and...

May 20 2020

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Jim Mellon Funds Aging Research at University of Oxford

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Jim Mellon is doing a fair amount to help push the research and medical communities towards the development of therapies to slow and reverse the progression of aging. He is...