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Oct 23 2020

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COVID-19 Is Only One of the Compelling Arguments for Developing the Means of Immune System Rejuvenation

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Infectious disease is a far greater risk for the old than for the young. But then so is cancer. Both are conditions driven by the age-related failure of immune system...

Oct 23 2020

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Obese Individuals Have an Impaired Synaptic Plasticity Response

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Researchers here provide initial evidence for obesity to impair synaptic plasticity, albeit a fairly indirect assessment of plasticity in just one area of the brain. Excessive visceral fat tissue is...

Oct 22 2020

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Chromatin Changes in the Aging of Stem Cells

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Chromatin is the name given to the packed structure of nuclear DNA and surrounding molecules, tightly coiled in the center of the cell. Chromatin structure and the molecules responsible for...

Oct 22 2020

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miR-195 Promotes Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity by Suppressing TSP1 Activity

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The blood-brain barrier consists of specialized cells that line central nervous system blood vessels, allowing only certain cells and molecules to pass to and from the brain. This barrier becomes...

Oct 21 2020

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Phosphate as an Agent of Accelerated Aging

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Here find an interesting viewpoint on the role of phosphate in mammalian biochemistry, suggesting that it tilts the playing field in the direction of faster degenerative aging. This emerges from...

Oct 21 2020

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Myokines Mediate the Effects of Exercise on Health

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Mapping mammalian biochemistry is a sizable task, and much of that biochemistry remains poorly understood and categorized. Cell signaling is a vast topic in and of itself. Here researchers discuss...

Oct 20 2020

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Targeting NAD+ Metabolism for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is important to mitochondrial function, the supply of chemical energy store molecules to power cellular processes, and thus to cell and tissue function. Levels of NAD+...

Oct 20 2020

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Molecules Leaking from Damaged Muscle Fibers can Activate Muscle Stem Cells

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Declining muscle stem cell function appears likely to be the most important contributing cause of sarcopenia, the characteristic loss of muscle mass and strength with age. Studies of the stem...

Oct 17 2020

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More Work on Proteomic Clocks to Measure Biological Age

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Researchers are these days producing a fair number of novel metrics capable of measuring age and mortality. Machine learning or similar approaches are used to mine epigenetic, proteomic, and transcriptomic...

Oct 17 2020

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Investigating Zebrafish Biochemistry in Search of Mechanisms of Neural Regeneration

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Zebrafish are highly regenerative, capable of regrowing organs, and even nervous system tissue such as the retina. Research groups investigate these species in search of specific mechanisms of proficient regeneration,...