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Oct 03 2026

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APOEε2 Pericytes Provide a More Resilient Blood-Brain Barrier

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Why is the APOEε2 variant of the APOE gene associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and slightly longer life expectancy? Past research has investigated the role of APOE...

Oct 02 2026

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Possible Approaches to Engineering Better Therapeutic Delivery of Mitochondria

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Mitochondrial transplantation as a form of therapy to improve mitochondrial function in aged tissues has barely started as a going concern, and only a few patients have been treated in...

Oct 01 2026

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The Peptide Catestatin Reduces Tau Pathology in Mice

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Later stages of Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies are characterized by the aggregation of altered tau protein, and a toxic surrounding biochemistry that provokes inflammation and destroys neurons. So far...

Sep 30 2026

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Raman Microscopy as a Potential Basis for Non-Invasive Assessment of the Burden of Senescent Cells

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Researchers here provide a proof of concept for the use of Raman spectroscopy to non-invasively measure the burden of senescent cells in an imaged tissue. This works because Raman imaging...

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...