Month: October 2026

Oct 26 2026

Newsletters

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

Oct 26 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Micropeptide that Inhibits Vascular Calcification via PKM2 Degradation

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The vascular system is prone to calcification with advancing age. Cells in the vasculature inappropriately take on the features and behavior of the osteoblast cells responsible for building bone extracellular...

Oct 25 2026

Daily News

PLA2G2F is Protective of Memory Function in the Aging Brain

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Researchers here identify the gene PLA2G2F as a regulator of compensatory responses to some of the damage and dysfunction of aging. The researchers were primarily investigating a population of neurons...

Oct 25 2026

Daily News

The APOEε4 Variant Interferes in Myelination in the Aging Brain

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Of the common variants of the APOE gene, APOEε4 presents the greatest risk of Alzheimer’s disease. APOE is involved in lipid metabolism, and APOEε4 is associated with lipid-related contributions to...

Oct 24 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Topical Urolithin A to Improve Aged Skin Function

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Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, creating the chemical energy store molecule adenosine triphosphate used to power cellular processes. Mitochondrial function declines with age, and the research community...

Oct 24 2026

Daily News

Loss of Oocyte Ribosomal Function as a Contribution to Female Reproductive Aging

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Why, mechanistically, is female reproductive aging so accelerated in relation to the rest of the aging process? Researchers here point to a role for a progressive loss of ribosomes in...

Oct 23 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Naked Mole Rats versus the Hallmarks of Aging

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Naked mole rats are very long-lived in comparison to similarly sized rodents, undergo little to no age-related loss of function for much of their later life, and exhibit a near...

Oct 23 2026

Daily News

The Polycentric Aging Framework Positions Epigenetic Change as the Dominant Mechanism of Aging

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The presently available data and understanding of aging might be thought of as a jigsaw with more missing pieces than there are pieces in hand. There is a great deal...

Oct 22 2026

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Creation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor Natural Killer Cells in Situ via Messenger RNA Therapy

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) can be delivered into tissues and cells by encapsulating it into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), and then injecting the nanoparticles. A target cell engulfs a LNP, and the...

Oct 22 2026

Daily News

Evidence for Peroxisome Dysfunction to be Important in Alzheimer’s Disease is Not Conclusive

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Peroxisomes in cells are responsible for helping to maintain oxidative metabolism via making and removing hydrogen peroxide, but are also involved in numerous aspects of lipid metabolism, breaking down or...