Category: Medicine, Biotech, Research

Jul 23 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The OneSkin Technologies DNA Methylation Clock for Assessment of Skin Aging

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OneSkin Technologies is one of the first generation of startup biotech companies in the longevity industry; you’ll find an overview of their programs and technology in an interview with founder...

Jul 22 2020

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Eating a Plant Based Diet Correlates with Better Health and Lower Mortality

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In a few recent scientific publications, the authors examined the differences in incidence of age-related disease and mortality in populations with differing levels of plant versus animal dietary protein intake....

Jul 21 2020

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Epigenetic Clocks are Quirky: the Biological Age of the Heart is Consistently Younger than Chronological Age

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Measures of biological age based on epigenetic marks, protein levels, transcriptomic profiles, and similar collections of biological data are proliferating rapidly. The first epigenetic clock, a weighted combination of DNA...

Jul 18 2020

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Gain and Loss of Flight as a Tool to Search for Import Factors in Longevity

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The capacity for flight is frequently associated with greater species longevity, such as in bats, for example. The present consensus suggests that the cellular adaptations needed to support the greater...

Jul 17 2020

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Reviewing Present Thought on the Evolution of the Calorie Restriction Response

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The practice of calorie restriction involves reducing calorie intake by up to 40% while maintaining an optimal intake of micronutrients. It can meaningfully extend life span in short-lived species such...

Jul 16 2020

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In Rats, Navitoclax Removes Senescent Chondrocytes that Contribute to Osteoarthritis

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Senescent cells are created constantly throughout life, largely as a result of somatic cells reaching the Hayflick limit on replication, but the pace at which they are cleared by programmed...

Jul 15 2020

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Repetitive Element Activity is Reduced in Mice Subject to Interventions that Modestly Slow Aging

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Today’s open access paper is a companion piece to a recent discussion of repetitive element activity as a potential biomarker of biological aging. In today’s paper, the authors note that...

Jul 14 2020

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Reversing the Age-Related Loss of Eosinophils in Visceral Fat Reduces Chronic Inflammation and its Consequences

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It is well known that visceral fat tissue is an important source of the chronic inflammation that drives the onset and progress of all of the common age-related diseases. This...

Jul 11 2020

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It is Challenging to Find Support for Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Reproduction and Aging in Human Data

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The disposibility theory of aging is one of numerous evolutionary theories of aging that seek to explain why aging exists and is near universal across species. In this case, aging...

Jul 10 2020

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MicroRNA-34a Promotes Vascular Cellular Senescence and Consequent Calcification

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With the growing interest in the accumulation of senescent cells as an important cause of aging, and more funding flowing into this part of the field, researchers are uncovering numerous...