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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...

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...