Author: Consultant

Jul 01 2020

Daily News

More on the Anti-Inflammatory Activities of BPIFB4 in Long Lived Individuals

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A research team has recently investigated a role for BPIFB4 in human longevity. They have identified a variant of this gene that appears more often in a population of long-lived...

Jul 01 2020

Daily News

An Analysis of the Grey Whale Transcriptome

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Whales are among the longest lived mammals, and thus of interest to researchers investigating the comparative biology of aging. There is the hope that examining the biochemistry of mammals with...

Jul 01 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Health and Disease

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Every cell contains a herd of hundreds of mitochondria, bacterial-like structures that contain a small circular genome, the mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria replicate to make up their numbers, and are culled...

Jun 30 2020

Daily News

Cross-Links as the Missing Hallmark of Aging

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Researchers here argue that it was a mistake to omit from the hallmarks of aging of cross-links and other forms of persistent modification to extracellular matrix molecules. Cross-links degrade the...

Jun 30 2020

Daily News

Considering Mitochondrial Quality Control in Greater Detail

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Loss of mitochondrial function is important in aging. Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, a herd of bacteria-like organelles that contain their own mitochondrial DNA, constantly replicate by...

Jun 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Loss of Proteasomal Function Leads to Protein Aggregation in Aging Killifish

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In today’s research materials, scientists investigating the aging of the brain report on their use short-lived killifish. The researchers show that a decline in proteasomal function precedes the destabilization of...

Jun 30 2020

2020, Anti-Aging, Eyes & Eyelid Area, Fillers, Fillers & Injectables

Filler around the eye area.

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Thank you! Okay…….so experts DO vary on this.  This is an expert only area for obvious reasons.  Damaging the eye itself with poor or inexperienced technique would be terrible. Part...

Jun 29 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 29th 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....

Jun 27 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype Proteins as a Biomarker of Aging

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In today’s open access research, the authors report on the generation of a biomarker of aging from the study of proteins secreted by senescent cells. Low cost assays that map...

Jun 27 2020

Daily News

T Cells Must Work Harder to Survive in an Old Body

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T cells of the adaptive immune system collectively become less functional with age. The immune system as a whole becomes more inflammatory and less effectively, a state described by the...