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Jul 31 2020

Daily News

An Age-Related Increase in CD47 Expression Impairs Vascular Function

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Researchers here provide evidence to indicate that increased expression of CD47 in aged blood vessels impairs a range of functions, from maintenance of these tissues to the generation of new...

Jul 31 2020

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Eating Ourselves into Shorter, Less Healthy Lives

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We humans have not evolved for optimal function given a continually high calorie intake. We, and all other species, evolved in an environment characterized by periods of feast and famine:...

Jul 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Long Term Low Dose Ethanol Intake Modestly Extends Life in Mice

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As of the past few years, the long-standing debate over whether moderate alcohol intake has a protective effect on health had appeared to resolve to the conclusion that the observed...

Jul 30 2020

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Cognitive Decline is Accelerated by Hypertension, Diabetes, and Smoking

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The raised blood pressure of hypertension can be minimized with age by staying thin and active, type 2 diabetes is near entirely avoidable via much the same strategy, and smoking...

Jul 30 2020

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Naked Mole-Rat Senescent Cells are Unusually Vulnerable to Oxidative Stress

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This open access paper expands on earlier work on cellular senescence in long-lived naked mole-rats. Individuals of this species can live as much as nine times longer than equivalently sized...

Jul 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Evidence for Oxytocin to Reverse Impairment of Synaptic Plasticity by Amyloid-β

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Today’s research materials report on recently presented preliminary evidence, based on work in tissue slices from mouse brains, for oxytocin to dampen the harms done to the function of neurons...

Jul 29 2020

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Glucosamine Supplementation Correlates with Lower All Cause Mortality

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An analysis of a large study population here shows that glucosamine supplementation results in about a 15% reduction in mortality, a sizable effect size in the context of what is...

Jul 29 2020

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Glycosylation Changes in Epidermal Stem Cells as a Biomarker of Aging

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Researchers here analyze amounts and types of glycans in stem cells isolated from the skin of old and young mice. The differences observed might serve as a biomarker of aging,...

Jul 28 2020

2020, Anti-Aging, Prevention of aging., Skin Care & Skin Care Products, Skin Care Product Problems

In which order should my skincare products go? (Part 1/2)

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Two separate questions from readers, but great ones.  We want the maximum we can get from our skincare products for both prevention of aging, and also for repair of aging. ...

Jul 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Genomic Search for Longevity-Associated Genes Points to Iron Metabolism in Human Aging

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As a general rule, one should be skeptical about any and all single studies that identify longevity-associated genes from human data. Typically the results cannot be replicated in different study...