Author: Consultant

Aug 01 2020

Daily News

Reviewing the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The present understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is illustrative of a broader issue with aging in general, in that while there is considerable evidence to pin down specific pathological mechanisms in...

Aug 01 2020

Daily News

Fitness in Humans Acts to Reduce Inflammation, But Does Not Reduce the Burden of Cellular Senescence in Muscle Tissue

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Fitness produced by training is here shown to correlate with reduced inflammatory signaling, but has no effect on the burden of senescent cells in old muscle tissue. This is interesting,...

Jul 31 2020

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‘Drawn-on-skin’ electronics offer breakthrough in wearable monitors

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Researchers have reported a new form of electronics known as ‘drawn-on-skin electronics,’ allowing multifunctional sensors and circuits to be drawn on the skin with an ink pen.

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 31 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Bat Biochemistry Points to DNA Repair and Autophagy as Important Determinants of Mammalian Species Longevity

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Investigation of the comparative biology of aging is one of many notable communities within the broader research community focused on aging and age-related disease. Scientists use comparisons between different species...

Jul 31 2020

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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 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

Daily News

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...