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Jul 04 2020

Daily News

More Evidence Linking Particulate Air Pollution to Increased Mortality in the Old

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The present consensus on how particulate air pollution (such as wood smoke from cooking fires, still commonplace in much of the world) causes an acceleration of age-related disease and mortality...

Jul 04 2020

Daily News

Neurodegeneration is a Blend of Damage and Symptoms, Not Nice Neat Categories of Disease and Mechanism

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The common neurodegenerative conditions are associated with various different forms of protein aggregation; a few proteins in the body have toxic alternative forms that can spread and cause harm to...

Jul 03 2020

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In mouse study, black raspberries show promise for reducing skin inflammation

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In a study done with mice, researchers found that a diet high in black raspberries reduced inflammation from contact hypersensitivity — a condition that causes redness and inflammation in the...

Jul 03 2020

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Study supports link between COVID-19 and ‘COVID Toes’

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A new study provides evidence supporting a link between ‘COVID toes’ — red sores or lesions on the feet and hands in children and young adults — and COVID-19.

Jul 03 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Autophagy in Cardiovascular Aging is a Complicated Matter

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Cell and tissue biology always turns out to be more complicated than we would all prefer. Present understanding is rarely complete to the point at which all obstacles are known....

Jul 03 2020

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Obesity Correlates with Higher Dementia Risk

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Excess visceral fat tissue generates chronic inflammation via a range of mechanisms, including an accelerated creation of senescent cells. Most of the commmon age-related conditions have an inflammatory component, and...

Jul 03 2020

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PTB Inhibition Converts Astrocytes into Neurons, Reverses Symptoms in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease

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Researchers here expand upon a fortuitous discovery that inhibition of the gene PTB causes a number of cell types to change into neurons, using this finding as the basis for...

Jul 02 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Aging Impacts Progenitor Cells in the Thymus

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The age-related decline of the immune system has several causes, but the involution of the thymus is an important one. The thymus is responsible for the production of mature T...

Jul 02 2020

Daily News

Targeting Cellular Senescence as an Intervention in Aging

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Senolytic drugs that destroy senescent cells, and later on, other senotherapies that either prevent senescence or block the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), are going to be very important in the...

Jul 02 2020

Daily News

Overexpression of Mitochondrial Peptide Humanin as a Potential Approach to Slowing Aging

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Researchers have discovered a number of mitochondrial peptides that influence cell and tissue health. Here, it is demonstrated that upregulation of humanin is sufficient to extend life in nematode worms....