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Oct 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Towards Restoration of Mitophagy to Reverse Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, a herd of bacteria-like organelles responsible for packaging energy store molecules used to power the chemistry of life. With age, mitochondria become...

Oct 30 2020

Daily News

Health For All, For Longer

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The growing interest in treating aging as a medical condition, in the production of therapies that target the mechanisms of aging and can thus slow or reverse the progression of...

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...

Oct 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Another New Senolytic Prodrug is Demonstrated to Reverse Frailty and Cognitive Function in Old Mice

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Today’s open access paper reports on the use of a prodrug senolytic strategy to reverse aspects of aging in mice via the selective destruction of senescent cells. A prodrug is...

Oct 29 2020

Daily News

Resting Metabolic Rate in Aging and Age-Related Disease

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Resting metabolic rate declines with age, a situation that has evolved for perhaps much the same reasons as loss of stem cell function, in that it is one part of...

Oct 29 2020

Daily News

Towards a More Sensitive Blood Test for the Earlier Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

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The onset of Alzheimer’s disease is preceded by years of slowly growing levels of amyloid-β aggregates in the brain. There is an equilibrium between amyloid-β in the brain and amyloid-β...

Oct 28 2020

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Langerhans cells are up to the job, they just need a chance

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Researchers found that Langerhans cells (LCs) play a crucial role in mucocutaneous acute guest-versus-host disease (aGVHD). Their experiments in mice showed that when the LCs of a recipient were depleted,...

Oct 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Wnt Signaling in Neurogenesis and the Aging of the Brain

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The Wnt signaling pathway is found somewhere in the midst of the exceedingly complicated network of processes that regulate regeneration and stem cell function. This small slice of cellular biochemistry...

Oct 28 2020

Daily News

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 28 2020

Daily News

Magnetic Fields Used to Engineer Better Cartilage with a More Natural Variation in Cell Density

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Researchers here demonstrate the use of magnetic fields and fluids to produce a more natural cell density gradient in engineered cartilage tissue. The result is bioartificial cartilage with better structural...