Category: Daily News

Aug 07 2020

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An Update on Single Issue Political Advocacy for Longevity in Europe

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In most European countries, electoral rules are such that it is possible to conduct effective advocacy for a cause via a single issue political party. Successful examples include the Green...

Aug 07 2020

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The Reasons to Study Aging

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I point out this open access paper not for the content, but for the preamble, in which the author offers a view on why the research community should study aging....

Aug 06 2020

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GDF15 Helps to Resist Age-Related Chronic Inflammation

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Aging is accompanied by rising levels of sustained inflammation, a chronic overactivation of the immune system. This inappropriate activity on the part of immune cells disrupts tissue function in numerous...

Aug 06 2020

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Microtubule Activity in Dopaminergic Neurons Affects the Pace of Aging in Flies

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In an interesting discovery, researchers here note evidence for the behavior of dopamine generating neurons in the fly brain to have an sizable influence on the pace of aging and...

Aug 05 2020

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A Type of Phosphorylated Tau in Blood Samples Indicates Amyloid-β Aggregation Prior to Symptoms

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Presently available methods of determining whether or not amyloid-β aggregates exist in the brain are expensive and invasive. Amyloid-β forms solid deposits in and around cells in the brain for...

Aug 05 2020

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MicroRNA miR-218-5p in Follicle Regeneration for Hair Regrowth

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As a general rule, people care too much about their hair and too little about their blood vessels. One can live without hair. It is interesting to see both (a)...

Aug 04 2020

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Influenza Vaccine Use Correlates with Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

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Researchers here note a correlation between receiving influenza vaccination, even once, and the later risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This is interesting in the context of the present debate over the...

Aug 04 2020

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Long-Lived Trees are Not Immortal

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Trees can adopt a range of strategies not available to animals in order to live for very long periods of time, but they are not immune to mechanisms of aging....

Aug 01 2020

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Fitness in Humans Acts to Reduce Inflammation, But Does Not Reduce the Burden of Cellular Senescence in Muscle Tissue

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Fitness produced by training is here shown to correlate with reduced inflammatory signaling, but has no effect on the burden of senescent cells in old muscle tissue. This is interesting,...

Aug 01 2020

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Reviewing the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The present understanding of Alzheimer’s disease is illustrative of a broader issue with aging in general, in that while there is considerable evidence to pin down specific pathological mechanisms in...