Month: August 2020

Aug 31 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 31st 2020

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Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine....

Aug 29 2020

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Engineers uncover biomechanical effects of skin rubbing

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Understanding the skin damage caused by rubbing could lead to better topical skin treatments and help prevent the formation of new routes for viral and bacterial infection.

Aug 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Investigating the Cause of Irregular Heartbeat Following Cell Therapy for Regeneration of Heart Tissue

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The promise of cell therapies is twofold. Firstly, the ability to regenerate from injuries that do not normally heal, such as severed nerves, or large loss of tissue mass. Secondly,...

Aug 29 2020

Daily News

Human Studies Link Calorie Restriction to Improved Cardiometabolic Status

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The data noted here is not news to anyone who has followed calorie restriction research. It is well understood that the practice of calorie restriction is beneficial to long term...

Aug 29 2020

Daily News

FOXO3a Suppresses Genomic Instability

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FOXO3a is one of the very few genes for which an association with longevity has been identified in multiple human studies – though one should bear in mind that even...

Aug 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Aging as a Target is a New Therapeutic Frontier

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My attention was recently drawn to an open access commentary on the present early stage of the scientific initiative to treat aging as a medical condition. It was published earlier...

Aug 28 2020

Daily News

Evidence for Klotho to Act on Life Span in Part via Resistance to Hypertension

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Klotho is a longevity-associated protein. More of it in mice extends life, less of it shortens life. In humans, a number of studies have shown klotho levels to correlate with...

Aug 28 2020

Daily News

Increased Levels of Methylmalonic Acid May Raise the Risk of Metastasis in Older People

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The article here discusses the interesting possibility that comparatively simple differences in circulating factors may be at the root of the higher risk of cancer metastasis in older people. Metastasis...

Aug 27 2020

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Novel alkaline hydrogel advances skin wound care

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Effective wound care requires the maintenance of optimal conditions for skin and tissue regeneration. Hydrogels provide many of these conditions, but not an alkaline environment. Now, in a breakthrough study,...

Aug 27 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Age-Related Downregulation of Rubicon Causes Excessive Autophagy in Adipocytes, Contributing to Metabolic Dysfunction

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Autophagy is a vital collection of cellular maintenance processes in which proteins and structures are broken down and recycled for their component parts. In short-lived laboratory species, dysfunctional autophagy shortens...