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Sep 29 2026

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Is Repeated DNA Damage Response Activation a Meaningful Cause of Aging?

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One of the more interesting new concepts in aging research is that repeated activation of the DNA damage response may cause epigenetic changes in the management of nuclear DNA structure...

Sep 28 2026

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Known Cancer-Associated Genetic Sequences are More Conserved in Long-Lived Species

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Suppression of cancer is a necessary component of species longevity, and finding out how exactly cancer incidence is in some cases dramatically reduced is one of the primary goals for...

Sep 27 2026

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Arguing for Some Age-Related Changes in Cognitive Function to be Adaptive and Programmed

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Here find a small slice of programmed aging consideration focused on some of the changes in cognitive function that take place in later life. The researchers argue that a shift...

Sep 26 2026

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Naked Mole Rat Hyaluronan Synthase 2 Improves Health in Mice But Doesn’t Reduce Age-Related Hearing Loss

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Researchers have started on the long process of transferring promising genes from long-lived species into short-lived species, one by one, with each such transfer as a test of how important...

Sep 25 2026

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Common Mechanisms of Individual Longevity Across Long-Lived Species

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Researchers here take a very broad tour of the established literature on the comparative biology of aging in long lived species of all sorts, picking from those that can live...

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 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 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...