Skincare

Sep 29 2020

Daily News

Injection of Metformin Improves Cognitive Function in Old Mice to a Greater Degree than Oral Administration

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Researchers here note that delivering metformin via injection rather than the usual oral administration removes unwanted side-effects and better improves cognitive function in old mice. Near all testing of metformin...

Sep 29 2020

Daily News

Upregulation of Mitophagy as an Approach to Treat Age-Related Disease

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Mitophagy is a cellular housekeeping process that removes damaged mitochondria. Mitochondria are the power plants of the cell, crucial in all tissues, but particularly so in the energy-hungry brain and...

Sep 28 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 28th 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 26 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Amyloid Precursor Protein Glycosylation is Different in the Alzheimer’s Brain

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The puzzle of Alzheimer’s disease is why it only occurs in some people. Unlike other common age-related diseases, such as atherosclerosis, it isn’t universal, even in groups exhibiting all of...

Sep 26 2020

Daily News

Naringenin is a Senotherapeutic that Enhances Neurogenesis in Mice

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Researchers here evaluate the flavonoid naringenin for its ability to dampen the inflammatory signaling of senescent neural cells, particularly levels of TNF-α, and increase neurogenesis in mice. This increased neurogenesis...

Sep 26 2020

Daily News

A Discussion of Targeting the Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Aging

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This very readable open access paper discusses some of the mechanisms involved in cardiovascular aging. As for many such publications, and to my eyes at least, it leans too much...

Sep 25 2020

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Talc and petroleum jelly among the best lubricants for people wearing PPE, study finds

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Talcum powder, a coconut oil-cocoa butter beeswax mixture, and petroleum jelly provide the best skin protection for long-term PPE use, say scientists.

Sep 25 2020

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New tool mimics human skin to allow detailed study of mosquito biting

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Scientists have developed a tool for studying the biting behavior of common pathogen-carrying mosquitoes.

Sep 25 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Rescuing Senescent Cells by Delivering New Mitochondria Sounds Like a Risky Proposition

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Mitochondria are effectively power plants, hundreds of these organelles per cell working to create the chemical energy store molecule adenosine triphosphate. Mitochondria are the descendants of ancient symbiotic bacteria, and...

Sep 25 2020

Daily News

Theorizing on Cosmic Radiation as an Accelerator of Aging via Cellular Senescence

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Researchers here suggest that some of the detrimental effects of prolonged space missions are mediated by an increased burden of senescent cells resulting from cosmic radiation exposure. Senescent cell accumulation...