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Sep 19 2020

Daily News

Geroscience and Ovarian Aging

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The geroscience view of the treatment of aging isn’t limited to the reuse of existing drugs that happen to upregulate stress responses in ways that modestly slow aging, but this...

Sep 18 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Recent Studies on the Changing Gut Microbiome in Aging

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Today’s research materials are a selection of recent studies on the gut microbiome and its relationship to the aging process. The scientific community has in recent years uncovered a great...

Sep 18 2020

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Metformin Found to Reduce Liver Inflammation

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Metformin produces a modest and unreliable extension of life in animal models, and human data shows a small increase in life span in diabetic patients. This is thought to work...

Sep 18 2020

Daily News

Lowered Body Temperature is Important in the Beneficial Calorie Restriction Response

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Calorie restriction lowers body temperature in mammals, but most research on how reduced calorie intake produces benefits to long-term health and longevity has focused on nutrient sensing as the primary...

Sep 17 2020

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Better material for wearable biosensors

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Researchers have used electrospinning to make porous silicone that allows sweat to evaporate.

Sep 17 2020

Healthy Life Extension Community

SENS Research Foundation Issues 2020 Annual Report

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The SENS Research Foundation, like the Methuselah Foundation it emerged from, is one of the more important organizations involved in the creation and shaping of the present R&D communities focused...

Sep 17 2020

Daily News

The Aging of Macrophages Impairs Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

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Macrophages of the innate immune system, cells derived from monocytes, are involved in many processes in tissue beyond merely hunting down invading pathogens. They are also important to the processes...

Sep 17 2020

Daily News

Targeting Inflammatory Microglia in the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disease

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The immune cells of the central nervous system are distinct from those of the rest of the body. Innate immune cells such as microglia become increasingly inflammatory with advancing age,...

Sep 16 2020

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A new approach to understanding the biology of wound healing

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Researchers use discarded wound dressings as a novel and non-invasive way to study the mechanisms that promote healing.

Sep 16 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Alpha-Ketoglutarate Supplementation Modestly Increases Life Span in Mice

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Alpha-ketoglutarate supplementation has been shown to modestly extend life span and improve measures of health in old mice; the publicity materials here accompany the formal release of that paper. Recently,...