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Oct 01 2020

Daily News

Learning is Damaged Before Memory in the Progression to Clinical Alzheimer’s

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Researchers searching for better ways to assess the early progression towards clinical Alzheimer’s disease have established what looks like a decent way to measure loss of learning capability, a decline...

Sep 30 2020

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Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn’s

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A newly identified genetic factor allows adult skin to repair itself like the skin of a newborn. The discovery has implications for wound treatment and preventing some of the aging...

Sep 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The Aging of Chimpanzees versus that of Humans

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We humans are unusually long-lived in comparison to our near primate cousins, and also compared to other mammals of similar body mass. We also exhibit menopause, an end to reproductive...

Sep 30 2020

Daily News

Exosome Therapy Appears as Effective as Cell Therapy for Cardiac Regeneration

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Cells are logistically challenging and more expensive to work with in comparison to components of cell signaling such as proteins or extracellular vesicles. In cell therapies wherein the bulk of...

Sep 30 2020

Daily News

Parkinson’s Disease is Two Distinct Conditions with a Similar Outcome

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Some age-related and other diseases with formal definitions based on symptoms and late stage mechanisms are likely several distinct conditions that happen to converge on a similar end result. This...

Sep 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The Old are Becoming Functionally Younger

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Today’s research materials cover one of a number of studies to suggest that older people are becoming functionally younger over time, comparing the capabilities of age-matched cohorts of old people...

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...