Author: Consultant

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...

Sep 09 2020

Uncategorized

Rubbing skin activates itch-relief neural pathway

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Stop scratching: rubbing skin activates an anti-itch pathway in the spinal cord, according to new research.

Sep 09 2020

Politics and Legislation

We Should Actually Try to Treat Aging for a Change

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I am generally in favor of the sentiment offered in this commentary on recent clinical trial failures for the first attempts to guide anti-aging technologies through the FDA gauntlet, which...

Sep 09 2020

Daily News

Mechanisms by which Hearing Loss Might Contribute to the Onset of Dementia

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There is a correlation between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. Is this because similar mechanisms of cell and tissue damage disrupt both the function of the brain and nerve...

Sep 09 2020

Daily News

Raised Blood Pressure is So Harmful that Reductions are Beneficial Even Without Addressing Underlying Causes

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The raised blood pressure of hypertension causes harm throughout the body, raising mortality risk and accelerating the onset and progression of numerous forms of ultimately fatal age-related disease. It accelerates...

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

Approaches to Optimize Growth of Muscles in Response to Resistance Training in Old People

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Muscle growth in response to resistance exercise is attenuated in older individuals, the result of much the same set of processes that lead to sarcopenia, the name given to the...

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

HDAC9 Inhibition Slows the Progression of Osteoporosis in Old Mice

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Researchers here explore a role for HDAC9 in the progression of osteoporosis, the progressive loss of bone density with age. The signs suggest that age-related upregulation of HDAC9 is involved...

Sep 08 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

Kimer Med Founded to Develop the DRACO Antiviral Strategy

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Today’s good news is that a biotech startup, Kimer Med, has been founded to develop the DRACO approach to defeating viral infections. Those of us who have been following developments...

Sep 07 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 7th 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 05 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Assessing the Utility of Six of the Better Known Epigenetic Clocks in a Large Study Population

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Epigenetic clocks to measure age emerged from the ability to cost-effectively obtain the moment to moment epigenome of an individual, the distribution of epigenetic marks on nuclear DNA that control...