Month: September 2026

Sep 30 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

PD-L1 Blockade in the Brain Restores Measures of Glial Cell Function

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PD-L1 found on the surface of cells is a well known immune checkpoint protein. When it binds to the receptor PD-1 found on the surface of T cells and B...

Sep 30 2026

Daily News

Raman Microscopy as a Potential Basis for Non-Invasive Assessment of the Burden of Senescent Cells

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Researchers here provide a proof of concept for the use of Raman spectroscopy to non-invasively measure the burden of senescent cells in an imaged tissue. This works because Raman imaging...

Sep 29 2026

Daily News

Is Repeated DNA Damage Response Activation a Meaningful Cause of Aging?

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One of the more interesting new concepts in aging research is that repeated activation of the DNA damage response may cause epigenetic changes in the management of nuclear DNA structure...

Sep 29 2026

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 28th 2026

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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 28 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Unified Cause for Loss of Type 1 Dendritic Cell Function in Aging, Cancer, and Chronic Infection

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Type 1 conventional dendritic cells are a subclass of dendritic cell known to be an important component of the immune response to pathogens and cancerous cells, particularly focused on stimulating...

Sep 28 2026

Daily News

Known Cancer-Associated Genetic Sequences are More Conserved in Long-Lived Species

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Suppression of cancer is a necessary component of species longevity, and finding out how exactly cancer incidence is in some cases dramatically reduced is one of the primary goals for...

Sep 27 2026

Daily News

Arguing for Some Age-Related Changes in Cognitive Function to be Adaptive and Programmed

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Here find a small slice of programmed aging consideration focused on some of the changes in cognitive function that take place in later life. The researchers argue that a shift...

Sep 27 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Proposing a Novel Set of Proxy Measures of Aging Rate

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It is well understood in the aging research community that the lack of a useful, consensus measure of biological age or pace of biological aging is a considerable hindrance to...

Sep 26 2026

Daily News

Naked Mole Rat Hyaluronan Synthase 2 Improves Health in Mice But Doesn’t Reduce Age-Related Hearing Loss

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Researchers have started on the long process of transferring promising genes from long-lived species into short-lived species, one by one, with each such transfer as a test of how important...

Sep 25 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

cGAS Knockout Reduces Cellular Senescence in Aged Killifish, But Does Not Extend Life

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The cGAS protein is a sensor for mislocalized DNA in the cell cytoplasm, and responds by triggering STING, a regulator of the inflammatory response to damage and dysfunction. The cGAS-STING...