Skincare

Sep 09 2020

Daily News

Mechanisms by which Hearing Loss Might Contribute to the Onset of Dementia

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There is a correlation between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. Is this because similar mechanisms of cell and tissue damage disrupt both the function of the brain and nerve...

Sep 09 2020

Daily News

Raised Blood Pressure is So Harmful that Reductions are Beneficial Even Without Addressing Underlying Causes

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The raised blood pressure of hypertension causes harm throughout the body, raising mortality risk and accelerating the onset and progression of numerous forms of ultimately fatal age-related disease. It accelerates...

Sep 08 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

Kimer Med Founded to Develop the DRACO Antiviral Strategy

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Today’s good news is that a biotech startup, Kimer Med, has been founded to develop the DRACO approach to defeating viral infections. Those of us who have been following developments...

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

HDAC9 Inhibition Slows the Progression of Osteoporosis in Old Mice

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Researchers here explore a role for HDAC9 in the progression of osteoporosis, the progressive loss of bone density with age. The signs suggest that age-related upregulation of HDAC9 is involved...

Sep 08 2020

Daily News

Approaches to Optimize Growth of Muscles in Response to Resistance Training in Old People

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Muscle growth in response to resistance exercise is attenuated in older individuals, the result of much the same set of processes that lead to sarcopenia, the name given to the...

Sep 07 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 7th 2020

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Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine....

Sep 05 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Assessing the Utility of Six of the Better Known Epigenetic Clocks in a Large Study Population

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Epigenetic clocks to measure age emerged from the ability to cost-effectively obtain the moment to moment epigenome of an individual, the distribution of epigenetic marks on nuclear DNA that control...

Sep 05 2020

Daily News

Much Faster Peripheral Nerve Regrowth with Electrical Stimulation

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Researchers here produce faster nerve regrowth following injury via the use of electrical stimulation of tissue. This is an interesting companion piece to a recent paper that reported on the...

Sep 05 2020

Daily News

Reviewing the Role of miR-181a in Sarcopenia

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A great many research groups investigate the mechanisms and biochemistry of sarcopenia, the characteristic age-related loss of muscle mass and strength. The most compelling evidence points of a loss of...

Sep 04 2020

Uncategorized

Wearable, portable invention offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections

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About 6 million people in the United States are affected by chronic wounds. Now, a team of innovators has developed a wearable solution that allows a patient to receive treatment...