Author: Consultant

Oct 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Wnt Signaling in Neurogenesis and the Aging of the Brain

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The Wnt signaling pathway is found somewhere in the midst of the exceedingly complicated network of processes that regulate regeneration and stem cell function. This small slice of cellular biochemistry...

Oct 28 2020

Daily News

Cellular Senescence as an Important Cause of Non-Healing Wounds in Diabetes

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One of the many unpleasant complications produced by type 1 and type 2 diabetes is a much reduced ability to heal wounds, leading to ulcers and non-healing injuries. Following the...

Oct 28 2020

Daily News

Magnetic Fields Used to Engineer Better Cartilage with a More Natural Variation in Cell Density

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Researchers here demonstrate the use of magnetic fields and fluids to produce a more natural cell density gradient in engineered cartilage tissue. The result is bioartificial cartilage with better structural...

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 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 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...