Author: Consultant

Oct 20 2020

Daily News

Molecules Leaking from Damaged Muscle Fibers can Activate Muscle Stem Cells

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Declining muscle stem cell function appears likely to be the most important contributing cause of sarcopenia, the characteristic loss of muscle mass and strength with age. Studies of the stem...

Oct 20 2020

Daily News

Targeting NAD+ Metabolism for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is important to mitochondrial function, the supply of chemical energy store molecules to power cellular processes, and thus to cell and tissue function. Levels of NAD+...

Oct 20 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Interventions Targeting the Aging of the Gut Microbiome

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Age-related changes to the microbial populations of the gut, the gut microbiome, appear important in the progression of aging. The effects on long-term health and risk of age-related conditions might...

Oct 19 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 19th 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 17 2020

Daily News

Investigating Zebrafish Biochemistry in Search of Mechanisms of Neural Regeneration

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Zebrafish are highly regenerative, capable of regrowing organs, and even nervous system tissue such as the retina. Research groups investigate these species in search of specific mechanisms of proficient regeneration,...

Oct 17 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Using CRISPR to Remove Mutated Sequences of Nuclear DNA Required by Cancerous Cells

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Fusion genes feature in many cancers, a form of mutation in which two genes are joined together, such as through deletion of the DNA sequences that normally separate the two...

Oct 17 2020

Daily News

More Work on Proteomic Clocks to Measure Biological Age

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Researchers are these days producing a fair number of novel metrics capable of measuring age and mortality. Machine learning or similar approaches are used to mine epigenetic, proteomic, and transcriptomic...

Oct 16 2020

Longevity Industry

Big Pharma Senolytics Programs are Getting Underway

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Biotech startups working in a new and credible field of clinical development only have a few years before large pharmaceutical companies take notice and begin to enter the arena. This...

Oct 16 2020

Daily News

COVID-19 as a Disease of Aging

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Researchers are writing a great many papers these days to point out the obvious regarding COVID-19, that the vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mortality occurs in olders individuals, particularly those...

Oct 16 2020

Daily News

Evidence for High Intensity Interval Training to be More Beneficial than Moderate Exercise in the Elderly

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Researchers here report on the results five years in to a study comparing the effects of different exercise programs on mortality in older people. While the high intensity interval training...