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Sep 10 2020

Daily News

An Interview with a Principal Investigator at Calico

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Calico is Google’s venture into aging research. It has, in general, been a disappointment to the community – though I suspect that this is a matter of unrealistic expectations as...

Sep 10 2020

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Long Lived Humans Do Not Exhibit Fewer Harmful Gene Variants

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Why are long lived humans long lived? Why does this trait often run in families? One of the few firm advances in answering these questions is to rule out the...

Sep 09 2020

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Raised Blood Pressure is So Harmful that Reductions are Beneficial Even Without Addressing Underlying Causes

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The raised blood pressure of hypertension causes harm throughout the body, raising mortality risk and accelerating the onset and progression of numerous forms of ultimately fatal age-related disease. It accelerates...

Sep 09 2020

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Mechanisms by which Hearing Loss Might Contribute to the Onset of Dementia

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There is a correlation between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. Is this because similar mechanisms of cell and tissue damage disrupt both the function of the brain and nerve...

Sep 08 2020

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Approaches to Optimize Growth of Muscles in Response to Resistance Training in Old People

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Muscle growth in response to resistance exercise is attenuated in older individuals, the result of much the same set of processes that lead to sarcopenia, the name given to the...

Sep 08 2020

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HDAC9 Inhibition Slows the Progression of Osteoporosis in Old Mice

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Researchers here explore a role for HDAC9 in the progression of osteoporosis, the progressive loss of bone density with age. The signs suggest that age-related upregulation of HDAC9 is involved...

Sep 05 2020

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Reviewing the Role of miR-181a in Sarcopenia

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A great many research groups investigate the mechanisms and biochemistry of sarcopenia, the characteristic age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. The most compelling evidence points of a loss of...

Sep 05 2020

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Much Faster Peripheral Nerve Regrowth with Electrical Stimulation

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Researchers here produce faster nerve regrowth following injury via the use of electrical stimulation of tissue. This is an interesting companion piece to a recent paper that reported on the...

Sep 04 2020

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Clearance of Senescent Cells as a Way to Expand the Donor Organ Supply

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Researchers here provide a proof of principle to suggest that the presence of senescent cells in older organs contributes meaningfully to transplant rejection, via mechanisms that spur greater immune activity....

Sep 04 2020

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Longevity-Risk-Adjusted Global Age, by Country

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People tend to live longer in some parts of the world than in others, the result of a cultural distribution of lifestyle choices such as smoking and becoming overweight, environmental...