Month: June 2020

Jun 18 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

An Example to Illustrate Why Navitoclax is Not a Suitable Clinical Senolytic Drug

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Senolytic therapies are those that selectively destroy senescent cells. Cells that become senescent grow in size, cease to replicate, and generate a potent mix of molecules known as the senescence-associated...

Jun 18 2020

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Blood Pressure Control Increases Life Expectancy Even in the Most Frail Elderly People

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Chronically raised blood pressure, or hypertension, is highly damaging to tissues throughout the body. It is an important mechanism linking the molecular damage of aging to gross structural damage to...

Jun 18 2020

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Retraining the Immune System to Turn Off Autoimmunity

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This interesting study suggests that it may be possible to turn off many forms of autoimmunity by inducing tolerance, in a comparatively simple manner, to the specific fragment of a...

Jun 17 2020

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Wearable patch may provide new treatment option for skin cancer

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Innovators have created a novel wearable patch to provide an improved treatment experience for people with melanoma. The researchers developed a novel wearable patch with fully miniaturized needles, enabling unobtrusive...

Jun 17 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Molecular Changes in the Lens of the Eye as a Potential Biomarker of Biological Age

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The search for viable biomarkers of aging is an active field of research. The ability to rapidly and cheaply assess biological age, the burden of cell and tissue damage and...

Jun 17 2020

Daily News

Threonine Restriction Promotes Health in Mice

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Calorie restriction, eating up to 40% fewer calories while maintaining optimal micronutrient intake, improves health and reliably extends life in most species. In humans it produces robust improvements in health,...

Jun 17 2020

Daily News

Quantifying Loss of Kidney Function with Age in a Human Population

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Kidney function is critical to health, but, as is the case for all organs, the kidneys declines with age. The damage of aging produces harmful outcomes in many ways. For...

Jun 16 2020

2020, Aging Skin, Anti-Aging, Eyes & Eyelid Area

Drooping eyelids and eyebrows.

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This is a great question.  We all have different patterns of facial aging depending on our parents, families, and ethnicities.  So at the end of the day, you’ll need a...

Jun 16 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Potentially Safe Mitochondrial Uncoupling Drug Candidate

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Mitochondrial uncoupling is the mechanism by which cells generate heat. Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, a herd of bacteria-like structures that conduct energetic processes to generate the...

Jun 16 2020

Daily News

Loss of Visual Acuity Correlates with Dementia Risk

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Many aspects of aging correlate with one another, even those with quite different underlying mechanisms and proximate causes. The various forms of root cause damage that result in the aging...