Month: September 2020

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

HDAC9 Inhibition Slows the Progression of Osteoporosis in Old Mice

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Researchers here explore a role for HDAC9 in the progression of osteoporosis, the progressive loss of bone density with age. The signs suggest that age-related upregulation of HDAC9 is involved...

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

Approaches to Optimize Growth of Muscles in Response to Resistance Training in Old People

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Muscle growth in response to resistance exercise is attenuated in older individuals, the result of much the same set of processes that lead to sarcopenia, the name given to the...

Sep 07 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 7th 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....

Sep 05 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Assessing the Utility of Six of the Better Known Epigenetic Clocks in a Large Study Population

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Epigenetic clocks to measure age emerged from the ability to cost-effectively obtain the moment to moment epigenome of an individual, the distribution of epigenetic marks on nuclear DNA that control...

Sep 05 2020

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Much Faster Peripheral Nerve Regrowth with Electrical Stimulation

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Researchers here produce faster nerve regrowth following injury via the use of electrical stimulation of tissue. This is an interesting companion piece to a recent paper that reported on the...

Sep 05 2020

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Reviewing the Role of miR-181a in Sarcopenia

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A great many research groups investigate the mechanisms and biochemistry of sarcopenia, the characteristic age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. The most compelling evidence points of a loss of...

Sep 04 2020

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Wearable, portable invention offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections

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About 6 million people in the United States are affected by chronic wounds. Now, a team of innovators has developed a wearable solution that allows a patient to receive treatment...

Sep 04 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Stress Granules as a Therapeutic Target

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Stress granules are a comparatively poorly understood portion of the processes that a cell uses to maintain its protein machinery and component structures. When cells are subject to mild stress...

Sep 04 2020

Daily News

Longevity-Risk-Adjusted Global Age, by Country

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People tend to live longer in some parts of the world than in others, the result of a cultural distribution of lifestyle choices such as smoking and becoming overweight, environmental...

Sep 04 2020

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Clearance of Senescent Cells as a Way to Expand the Donor Organ Supply

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Researchers here provide a proof of principle to suggest that the presence of senescent cells in older organs contributes meaningfully to transplant rejection, via mechanisms that spur greater immune activity....