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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,...

Oct 16 2020

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Evidence for High Intensity Interval Training to be More Beneficial than Moderate Exercise in the Elderly

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Researchers here report on the results five years in to a study comparing the effects of different exercise programs on mortality in older people. While the high intensity interval training...

Oct 16 2020

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COVID-19 as a Disease of Aging

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Researchers are writing a great many papers these days to point out the obvious regarding COVID-19, that the vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mortality occurs in olders individuals, particularly those...

Oct 15 2020

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A Hydrogel Scaffold to Encourage Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

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The nervous system of mammals is poorly regenerative at best. The use of implantable scaffold materials is one of the strategies under development in the tissue engineering community to encourage...

Oct 15 2020

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A Conservative View on Osteoarthritis, Failing to Mention Senescent Cells

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This open access paper provides a conservative view on the state of research and development of osteoarthritis treatments. Some time is spent on the puzzling nature of inflammation in osteoarthritis,...

Oct 14 2020

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Loss of Sense of Smell as an Early Biomarker for Brain Aging

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Alzheimer’s disease begins in the olfactory bulb, with evidence suggesting that this is related to failing drainage of cerebrospinal fluid from that part of the brain. It has been noted...