Author: Consultant

Jun 24 2020

Daily News

The Immune Response to Tumors Changes with Age

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The interaction between the immune system and tumor is meaningfully different in young and old individuals. The aging of the immune system makes near everything worse in health and physiology....

Jun 23 2020

Daily News

Towards the Use of Epigenetic Clocks in Clinical Trials

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Despite the challenges inherent in the practical use of epigenetic clocks based on age-related changes in DNA methylation, clinical trials are forging ahead in the employment of these clocks. The...

Jun 23 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Reviewing the Role of the Immune System in Clearance of Senescent Cells

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Cells in the body become senescent constantly, in response to reaching the Hayflick limit on replication, to DNA damage, to a toxic local environment, to injury. A senescent cell grows...

Jun 23 2020

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A Central Role for p53 in Osteoporosis?

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Osteoporosis is the name given to the advanced stages of the characteristic age-related loss of bone strength and density. Bone tissue is constantly remodeled, created by osteoblasts and broken down...

Jun 22 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 22nd 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 20 2020

2020, Anti-Aging, Asian Skin, Brown Spots

Really stubborn brown spots.

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Here are a few things to remember about brown spots. The longer they’ve been there the deeper their “roots” are, and the harder it will be to lighten them.  So...

Jun 20 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Senescent Cardiomyocytes in Cardiovascular Disease

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Senescent cells accumulate in tissues throughout the body with age. Cells constantly become senescent as a result of wound healing, cancer suppression, the Hayflick limit on cellular replication, or damage...

Jun 20 2020

Daily News

CD9 Expression in Cellular Senescence and Atherosclerosis

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Cellular senescence is important in the progression of aging, and targeted elimination of senescent cells has been shown to reverse the course of many age-related conditions in animal studies. Atherosclerosis...

Jun 20 2020

Daily News

Regular Physical Activity Reverses Frailty in the Old

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There is considerable evidence for the proposition that older people engage in too little physical activity. Our modern societies of comfort and our engines of transport enable a sedentary lifestyle,...

Jun 19 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Fitting Senescent Cells into a Modified Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The amyloid cascade hypothesis is the earliest coherent view of the development of Alzheimer’s disease. In this view, the condition begins with the slow aggregation of amyloid-β over many years,...