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Oct 30 2020

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Health For All, For Longer

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The growing interest in treating aging as a medical condition, in the production of therapies that target the mechanisms of aging and can thus slow or reverse the progression of...

Oct 30 2020

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Proteomic Analysis of Blood Samples Points to the Importance of Inflammation in Aging

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Chronic inflammation is a feature of aging, the constant inappropriate overactivation of the immune system. Many of the mechanisms that contribute to this unfortunate state are catalogued and understood to...

Oct 29 2020

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Towards a More Sensitive Blood Test for the Earlier Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The onset of Alzheimer’s disease is preceded by years of slowly growing levels of amyloid-β aggregates in the brain. There is an equilibrium between amyloid-β in the brain and amyloid-β...

Oct 29 2020

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Resting Metabolic Rate in Aging and Age-Related Disease

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Resting metabolic rate declines with age, a situation that has evolved for perhaps much the same reasons as loss of stem cell function, in that it is one part of...

Oct 28 2020

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Magnetic Fields Used to Engineer Better Cartilage with a More Natural Variation in Cell Density

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Researchers here demonstrate the use of magnetic fields and fluids to produce a more natural cell density gradient in engineered cartilage tissue. The result is bioartificial cartilage with better structural...

Oct 28 2020

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Cellular Senescence as an Important Cause of Non-Healing Wounds in Diabetes

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One of the many unpleasant complications produced by type 1 and type 2 diabetes is a much reduced ability to heal wounds, leading to ulcers and non-healing injuries. Following the...

Oct 27 2020

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In Vivo Reprogramming Improves Cognitive Function in Old Mice

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Reprogramming cells in a living animal, transforming them into induced pluripotent stem cells, has the sound of a bad idea – leading to cancer, damage to structures and tissues, inappropriate...

Oct 27 2020

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Targeting Aging is the Way to Treat Diseases of Aging

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Near all work to date on the treatment of age-related disease has failed to consider or target underlying mechanisms of aging, the molecular damage that accumulates to cause pathology. It...

Oct 24 2020

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Cerebrovascular Disease Prevention as a Priority in Dementia Prevention

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Disruption of the blood flow to the brain, either a slow decline in supply due to vascular aging, or following a stroke, is an important contributing factor in the development...

Oct 24 2020

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ELOVL2 in the Aging of the Eye

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The development of epigenetic clocks for the assessment of biological age is a popular area of study, but connecting characteristic age-related epigenetic changes at specific CpG sites on the genome...