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May 19 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Follistatin Gene Therapy Doubles Muscle Mass in Mice

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Follistatin is an inhibitor of myostatin. Blocking myostatin activity enhances muscle growth, with accompanying beneficial side-effects such as a loss of excess fat tissue. This is well proven. There are...

May 18 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 18th 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....

May 16 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

On Nutraceutical Senolytics

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Nutraceuticals are compounds derived from foods, usually plants. In principle one can find useful therapies in the natural world, taking the approach of identifying interesting molecules and refining them to...

May 16 2020

Daily News

Alk Inhibitors to Slow Aging

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A number of receptor tyrosine kinases are implicated in areas of metabolism known to influence the pace of aging in short-lived laboratory species. Researchers here investigate Alk, a receptor tyrosine...

May 16 2020

Daily News

Early Life Epigenetic Changes can Set the Stage for Later Life Metabolic Dysfunction

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Epigenetic markers on DNA determine the pace and timing of protein production, and are thus one of the important influences on cell and tissue function. Cells adjust their epigenetic programs...

May 15 2020

Daily News

Repair of Mitochondrial DNA Damage as Potential Treatment for Cardiac Aging

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Mitochondrial DNA damage is a contributing cause of aging, and researchers here look at this issue in the context of the aging of heart tissue. Mitochondria are the power plants...

May 15 2020

Daily News

Failing Mitophagy in the Progression of Aging

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Mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, decline in function with age. This contributes to the development of age-related conditions, particularly in energy-hungry tissues such as muscle and brain. An...

May 15 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Transplanting Gut Microbes from Old Rats to Young Rats Produces Inflammation and Cognitive Decline

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Today’s open access paper is interesting on two counts. Firstly as one of a number of studies in recent years examining the effects of age-related changes in the gut microbiome...

May 14 2020

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Brain signal measurement using printed tattoo electrodes

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Researchers have developed ultra-light tattoo electrodes that are hardly noticeable on the skin and make long-term measurements of brain activity cheaper and easier.

May 14 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Biomarker of Aging Based on Protein Glycosylation Patterns

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Today I’ll note the development of a commercial aging clock based on glycosylation patterns of immunoglobulin G, a marker for the inflammatory status of the immune system, by startup biotech...