Month: September 2020

Sep 11 2020

Daily News

A Damage-Based View of Aging, Offering the Hope of Rejuvenation through Repair

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This paper, published earlier in the year, is a reaffirmation of the consensus position that aging is caused by the accumulation of cell and tissue damage, made at a time...

Sep 11 2020

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A Meta-Analysis of the Ability of Exercise to Reduce Age-Related Mortality

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Exercise improves health, and that statement continues to be the case throughout life, even into late old age, and while suffering from age-related conditions that impact the ability to exercise....

Sep 10 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Connecting the Immune Response to Amyloid-β Aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease via IFITM3

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It is well established that chronic inflammation in brain tissue contributes to the onset and progression of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Short-term inflammation is a necessary part of...

Sep 10 2020

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Long Lived Humans Do Not Exhibit Fewer Harmful Gene Variants

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Why are long lived humans long lived? Why does this trait often run in families? One of the few firm advances in answering these questions is to rule out the...

Sep 10 2020

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An Interview with a Principal Investigator at Calico

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Calico is Google’s venture into aging research. It has, in general, been a disappointment to the community – though I suspect that this is a matter of unrealistic expectations as...

Sep 09 2020

Uncategorized

Rubbing skin activates itch-relief neural pathway

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Stop scratching: rubbing skin activates an anti-itch pathway in the spinal cord, according to new research.

Sep 09 2020

Politics and Legislation

We Should Actually Try to Treat Aging for a Change

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I am generally in favor of the sentiment offered in this commentary on recent clinical trial failures for the first attempts to guide anti-aging technologies through the FDA gauntlet, which...

Sep 09 2020

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Mechanisms by which Hearing Loss Might Contribute to the Onset of Dementia

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There is a correlation between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. Is this because similar mechanisms of cell and tissue damage disrupt both the function of the brain and nerve...

Sep 09 2020

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Raised Blood Pressure is So Harmful that Reductions are Beneficial Even Without Addressing Underlying Causes

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The raised blood pressure of hypertension causes harm throughout the body, raising mortality risk and accelerating the onset and progression of numerous forms of ultimately fatal age-related disease. It accelerates...

Sep 08 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

Kimer Med Founded to Develop the DRACO Antiviral Strategy

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Today’s good news is that a biotech startup, Kimer Med, has been founded to develop the DRACO approach to defeating viral infections. Those of us who have been following developments...