Skincare

Sep 02 2020

Daily News

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...

Sep 01 2020

Daily News

The RNAAgeCalc Transcriptional Aging Clock

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Omics data provides a wealth of metrics that correlate with age, quite well in some cases. Weighted combinations of CpG site methylation status, protein levels, and RNA transcript levels have...

Sep 01 2020

Daily News

Comparing the Genetics of Large and Small Long-Lived Rodents

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Research into the comparative biology of aging seeks to identify important mechanisms determining life span and the progression of aging by comparing different near neighbor species with very different life...

Aug 31 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 31st 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....

Aug 29 2020

Uncategorized

Engineers uncover biomechanical effects of skin rubbing

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Understanding the skin damage caused by rubbing could lead to better topical skin treatments and help prevent the formation of new routes for viral and bacterial infection.

Aug 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Investigating the Cause of Irregular Heartbeat Following Cell Therapy for Regeneration of Heart Tissue

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The promise of cell therapies is twofold. Firstly, the ability to regenerate from injuries that do not normally heal, such as severed nerves, or large loss of tissue mass. Secondly,...

Aug 29 2020

Daily News

Human Studies Link Calorie Restriction to Improved Cardiometabolic Status

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The data noted here is not news to anyone who has followed calorie restriction research. It is well understood that the practice of calorie restriction is beneficial to long term...

Aug 29 2020

Daily News

FOXO3a Suppresses Genomic Instability

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FOXO3a is one of the very few genes for which an association with longevity has been identified in multiple human studies – though one should bear in mind that even...

Aug 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Aging as a Target is a New Therapeutic Frontier

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My attention was recently drawn to an open access commentary on the present early stage of the scientific initiative to treat aging as a medical condition. It was published earlier...