Author: Consultant

May 01 2020

Self-Experimentation

Notes on Self-Experimentation with Sex Steroid Ablation for Regrowth of the Thymus

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I periodically publish thoughts on self-experiments that seem interesting and relevant to aging. Despite the influence of the quantified self movement, the broader self-experimentation community is largely terrible on matters...

May 01 2020

Daily News

Photobiomodulation to Enhance Mitochondrial Function as a Potential Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease

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There is evidence for near-infrared light to improve mitochondrial function, although exactly how it works, and how reliably it works, is far from settled. This wavelength of light penetrates tissue...

May 01 2020

Daily News

Adjusting Macrophage Polarization for Therapeutic Effects is not Straightforward

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The innate immune cells known as macrophages can adopt different packages of behaviors, known as polarizations, under different circumstances. The underlying reality is more a continuum than two clear categories,...

Apr 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The Existence of Senolytics May Trigger the Shift Towards Targeting Root Causes of Disease

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It is sadly true that little medical research and development involves targeting the root causes of the treated condition. This is exactly why therapies largely fail in trials, and are...

Apr 30 2020

Daily News

Complement C5 Protein is a Biomarker of Preclinical Atherosclerosis

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At some point in the years ahead, the research community will develop effective means of reversing atherosclerotic lesions, the fatty, inflammatory deposits that build up in blood vessel walls to...

Apr 30 2020

Daily News

Direct Reprogramming of Skin Cells into Photoreceptors to Restore Light Sensitivity in Mice

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Researchers here demonstrate a direct form of cellular reprogramming, converting skin cells directly into another cell type without going through intermediary stages of induced pluripotency and differentiation. In this case...

Apr 29 2020

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Electronic skin fully powered by sweat can monitor health

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Electronic skin monitors body’s vitals signs while being powered by sweat.

Apr 29 2020

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Researchers develop new microneedle array combination vaccine delivery system

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In parallel to their current work on a potential coronavirus vaccine, researchers have developed a new vaccine delivery system for vaccines using live or attenuated viral vectors: a finger-tip sized...

Apr 29 2020

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Nasal smear as an allergy screening test

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In the world of allergy diagnostics, the familiar blood samples and unpleasant skin prick procedures for testing allergen tolerance may soon be a thing of the past. A team of...

Apr 29 2020

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Biomechanics of skin can perform useful tactile computations

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As our body’s largest and most prominent organ, the skin also provides one of our most fundamental connections to the world around us. From the moment we’re born, it is...