Month: July 2020

Jul 02 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Aging Impacts Progenitor Cells in the Thymus

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The age-related decline of the immune system has several causes, but the involution of the thymus is an important one. The thymus is responsible for the production of mature T...

Jul 02 2020

Daily News

Targeting Cellular Senescence as an Intervention in Aging

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Senolytic drugs that destroy senescent cells, and later on, other senotherapies that either prevent senescence or block the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), are going to be very important in the...

Jul 02 2020

Daily News

Overexpression of Mitochondrial Peptide Humanin as a Potential Approach to Slowing Aging

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Researchers have discovered a number of mitochondrial peptides that influence cell and tissue health. Here, it is demonstrated that upregulation of humanin is sufficient to extend life in nematode worms....

Jul 01 2020

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Human-Artificial intelligence collaborations best for skin cancer diagnosis

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Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks.

Jul 01 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Health and Disease

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Every cell contains a herd of hundreds of mitochondria, bacterial-like structures that contain a small circular genome, the mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria replicate to make up their numbers, and are culled...

Jul 01 2020

Daily News

An Analysis of the Grey Whale Transcriptome

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Whales are among the longest lived mammals, and thus of interest to researchers investigating the comparative biology of aging. There is the hope that examining the biochemistry of mammals with...

Jul 01 2020

Daily News

More on the Anti-Inflammatory Activities of BPIFB4 in Long Lived Individuals

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A research team has recently investigated a role for BPIFB4 in human longevity. They have identified a variant of this gene that appears more often in a population of long-lived...