Skincare

Jul 30 2020

Daily News

Naked Mole-Rat Senescent Cells are Unusually Vulnerable to Oxidative Stress

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This open access paper expands on earlier work on cellular senescence in long-lived naked mole-rats. Individuals of this species can live as much as nine times longer than equivalently sized...

Jul 29 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Evidence for Oxytocin to Reverse Impairment of Synaptic Plasticity by Amyloid-β

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Today’s research materials report on recently presented preliminary evidence, based on work in tissue slices from mouse brains, for oxytocin to dampen the harms done to the function of neurons...

Jul 29 2020

Daily News

Glucosamine Supplementation Correlates with Lower All Cause Mortality

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An analysis of a large study population here shows that glucosamine supplementation results in about a 15% reduction in mortality, a sizable effect size in the context of what is...

Jul 29 2020

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Glycosylation Changes in Epidermal Stem Cells as a Biomarker of Aging

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Researchers here analyze amounts and types of glycans in stem cells isolated from the skin of old and young mice. The differences observed might serve as a biomarker of aging,...

Jul 28 2020

2020, Anti-Aging, Prevention of aging., Skin Care & Skin Care Products, Skin Care Product Problems

In which order should my skincare products go? (Part 1/2)

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Two separate questions from readers, but great ones.  We want the maximum we can get from our skincare products for both prevention of aging, and also for repair of aging. ...

Jul 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Genomic Search for Longevity-Associated Genes Points to Iron Metabolism in Human Aging

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As a general rule, one should be skeptical about any and all single studies that identify longevity-associated genes from human data. Typically the results cannot be replicated in different study...

Jul 28 2020

Daily News

Organoids Used to Identify NRG1 as a Regulator of Tissue Repair in the Intestine

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The intestinal lining is an important tissue. Among its other functions, it protects the body from inflammation that can be generated by the actions of gut microbes. This barrier declines...

Jul 28 2020

Daily News

Age Related Hearing Loss is Caused by Damage to Hair Cells

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Researchers here provide evidence for age-related deafness to be caused by the loss of viable hair cells in the inner ear, rather than other possible mechanisms. As pointed out, this...

Jul 27 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 27th 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....

Jul 25 2020

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Getting under the skin of psoriasis

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Psoriasis afflicts millions of people worldwide, but treatments are limited to small molecules like steroids, which can cause skin thinning and lose their effectiveness over time. Medical researchers have circumvented...