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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...

Oct 14 2020

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A Healthy Lifestyle Correlates with Increased Life Span Even in People with Multiple Age-Related Conditions

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This assessment of epidemiological data shows that the gain in life expectancy that accompanies a healthy lifestyle is much the same whether or not an individual suffers from multiple age-related...

Oct 13 2020

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Attempting to Make Periodontal Stem Cells More Active in the Inflammatory Conditions of Periodontitis

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The state of chronic, unresolved inflammation in the diseased gums of periodontitis drives loss of bone and tissue. This occurs in part due to suppression of the activity of stem...

Oct 13 2020

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To What Degree do Bodily Microbiomes Beyond the Gut Contribute to the Chronic Inflammation of Aging?

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Most research on the microbial life of the body in the context of aging is focused on the gut microbiome, though a fair amount of investigation of oral microbial populations...

Oct 10 2020

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In Search of Common Transcriptional Regulators of Aging

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Are there common regulators of aging to be found among transcription factors? Sweeping, complex, tissue-specific and species-specific changes in gene expression take place over the course of aging. If these...

Oct 10 2020

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Incorporating Microelectronics into Bioartificial Blood Vessels

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Researchers here report on an interesting proof of concept, incorporating electronic device capabilities into the flexible biomaterials used as scaffolding for blood vessel tissue engineering. As a next generation technology...

Oct 09 2020

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An Example of the Beneficial Role of Senescence in Injury

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Researchers here provide an interesting demonstration of the beneficial role of transient cellular senescence in injury. Applying senolytics to selectively destroy senescent cells immediately following traumatic injury greatly worsens the...