Month: October 2020

Oct 27 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Research into the Mechanisms of Aging is Very Poorly Funded in Comparison to its Importance to Health

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Research into aging is sparsely funded in comparison to research into the biochemistry and treatment of any specific common age-related disease, such as atherosclerosis or Alzheimer’s disease. Yet these conditions...

Oct 27 2020

Daily News

Targeting Aging is the Way to Treat Diseases of Aging

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Near all work to date on the treatment of age-related disease has failed to consider or target underlying mechanisms of aging, the molecular damage that accumulates to cause pathology. It...

Oct 27 2020

Daily News

In Vivo Reprogramming Improves Cognitive Function in Old Mice

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Reprogramming cells in a living animal, transforming them into induced pluripotent stem cells, has the sound of a bad idea – leading to cancer, damage to structures and tissues, inappropriate...

Oct 26 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 26th 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....

Oct 24 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

The Challenge of Achieving Healthy Human Longevity

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The big sea change of the past 10 to 15 years in aging research is that the scientific community is now near entirely behind the idea that aging is a...

Oct 24 2020

Daily News

ELOVL2 in the Aging of the Eye

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The development of epigenetic clocks for the assessment of biological age is a popular area of study, but connecting characteristic age-related epigenetic changes at specific CpG sites on the genome...

Oct 24 2020

Daily News

Cerebrovascular Disease Prevention as a Priority in Dementia Prevention

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Disruption of the blood flow to the brain, either a slow decline in supply due to vascular aging, or following a stroke, is an important contributing factor in the development...

Oct 23 2020

Longevity Industry

OneSkin Launches a Topical Senolytic Treatment

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Senescent cells are damaging to tissue function and health when they linger and grow in number, as becomes the case with age. They contribute to the chronic inflammation of aging...

Oct 23 2020

Daily News

Obese Individuals Have an Impaired Synaptic Plasticity Response

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Researchers here provide initial evidence for obesity to impair synaptic plasticity, albeit a fairly indirect assessment of plasticity in just one area of the brain. Excessive visceral fat tissue is...

Oct 23 2020

Daily News

COVID-19 Is Only One of the Compelling Arguments for Developing the Means of Immune System Rejuvenation

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Infectious disease is a far greater risk for the old than for the young. But then so is cancer. Both are conditions driven by the age-related failure of immune system...