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Sep 14 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 14th 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....

Sep 12 2020

Daily News

Dysfunction of the Blood-Brain Barrier as an Early Stage in the Progression to Dementia

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The blood-brain barrier is a lining of specialized cells that surrounds blood vessels passing through the brain. The barrier permits only certain molecules and cells to pass, isolating the tissue...

Sep 12 2020

Daily News

Greater Fitness Correlates with Lower White Matter Hyperintensity Volume in the Aging Brain

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White matter hyperintensities in the brain are small areas of damage most likely produced by the rupture or other loss of integrity of tiny blood vessels. In effect they are...

Sep 12 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Hormone Therapy in Postmenopausal Women Correlates with Lesser Senescent Cell Signaling

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Beyond their use for conditions of severe hormone deficiency, hormone therapies are one of the higher profile approaches taken by the less rigorous, more dubious end of the “anti-aging” medical...

Sep 11 2020

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Addicted to the sun? Research shows it’s in your genes

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Sun-seeking behavior is linked to genes involved in addiction, behavioral and personality traits and brain function, according to a study of more than 260,000 people.

Sep 11 2020

Daily News

A Meta-Analysis of the Ability of Exercise to Reduce Age-Related Mortality

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Exercise improves health, and that statement continues to be the case throughout life, even into late old age, and while suffering from age-related conditions that impact the ability to exercise....

Sep 11 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Targeting Cellular Senescence to Heal Non-Healing Wounds

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An accumulation of senescent cells takes place throughout the body with age. Cells become senescent constantly, the vast majority as a consequence of hitting the Hayflick limit on replication of...

Sep 11 2020

Daily News

A Damage-Based View of Aging, Offering the Hope of Rejuvenation through Repair

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This paper, published earlier in the year, is a reaffirmation of the consensus position that aging is caused by the accumulation of cell and tissue damage, made at a time...

Sep 10 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Connecting the Immune Response to Amyloid-β Aggregation in Alzheimer’s Disease via IFITM3

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It is well established that chronic inflammation in brain tissue contributes to the onset and progression of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Short-term inflammation is a necessary part of...

Sep 10 2020

Daily News

Long Lived Humans Do Not Exhibit Fewer Harmful Gene Variants

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Why are long lived humans long lived? Why does this trait often run in families? One of the few firm advances in answering these questions is to rule out the...