Skincare

Jul 29 2020

Daily News

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...

Jul 25 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Mechanisms by Which Somatic Mosaicism May Contribute to Degenerative Aging

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Cells are liquid bags of molecules, constantly interacting and reacting with one another. Many of those reactions are unwanted and damaging to the molecular machinery of the cell, but repair...

Jul 25 2020

Daily News

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Improves Cerebral Blood Flow in a Small Clinical Trial

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In the study noted here, researchers provide evidence for a few months of hyperbaric oxygen treatment to increase blood flow to the brain, perhaps in large part by spurring greater...

Jul 25 2020

Daily News

Evidence for Stochastic Mitochondrial DNA Mutation in Mice to Largely be a Result of DNA Replication

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Mitochondria, the power plants of the cell, are the distant descendants of ancient symbiotic bacteria. They contain their own remnant mitochondrial DNA, a small genome distinct from that in the...