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Sep 04 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Stress Granules as a Therapeutic Target

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Stress granules are a comparatively poorly understood portion of the processes that a cell uses to maintain its protein machinery and component structures. When cells are subject to mild stress...

Sep 04 2020

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Longevity-Risk-Adjusted Global Age, by Country

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People tend to live longer in some parts of the world than in others, the result of a cultural distribution of lifestyle choices such as smoking and becoming overweight, environmental...

Sep 04 2020

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Clearance of Senescent Cells as a Way to Expand the Donor Organ Supply

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Researchers here provide a proof of principle to suggest that the presence of senescent cells in older organs contributes meaningfully to transplant rejection, via mechanisms that spur greater immune activity....

Sep 03 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Bidirectional Relationship Between the Gut Microbiome and Aging

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The gut microbiome is influential on health over the long term, possible as much so as exercise. That said, research related to aging in this part of the field is...

Sep 03 2020

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Is Age-Related Polyploidy a Beneficial Adaptation to a Damaged Environment?

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Cells with abnormal chromosome counts, a state known as aneuploidy, are considered to be a problem. The evidence suggests that such cells accumulate with age, a form of damage and...

Sep 03 2020

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mTOR in the Cerebrovascular Dysfunction that Contributes to Neurodegenerative Disease

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Aging brings considerable disruption to the vascular system: stiffening of blood vessels; hypertension that damages delicate tissues; a loss of capillary density resulting in reduced delivery of nutrients and oxygen;...

Sep 02 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

An Update on Lygenesis: Functional Liver Organoids in the Lymph Nodes of Pigs

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Lygenesis is the company founded to conduct the clinical development of research into the use of lymph nodes to support the growth and function of organoids. Lymph nodes are found...

Sep 02 2020

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A Better Chondroitinase ABC to Break Down Nerve Tissue Scarring

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Researchers here report on their successful redesign of the chondroitinase ABC enzyme, capable of degrading a form of scarring that forms following nervous system injury. This scarring inhibits regrowth of...

Sep 02 2020

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Theophylline Produces Accelerated Remyelination in the Central Nervous System of Mice

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The myelin sheathing around axons is necessary for the proper function of nervous system tissue. Demyelinating conditions such as multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks...

Sep 01 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

CCR2 Inhibition Promotes Muscle Regeneration in Aged Mice

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Chronic inflammation is an important component of aging. The immune system becomes overactive, provoked by a range of problems that include persistent viral infections, increased amounts of molecular debris from...