Skincare

Jun 30 2020

Daily News

Cross-Links as the Missing Hallmark of Aging

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Researchers here argue that it was a mistake to omit from the hallmarks of aging of cross-links and other forms of persistent modification to extracellular matrix molecules. Cross-links degrade the...

Jun 29 2020

Newsletters

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 29th 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....

Jun 27 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype Proteins as a Biomarker of Aging

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In today’s open access research, the authors report on the generation of a biomarker of aging from the study of proteins secreted by senescent cells. Low cost assays that map...

Jun 27 2020

Daily News

T Cells Must Work Harder to Survive in an Old Body

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T cells of the adaptive immune system collectively become less functional with age. The immune system as a whole becomes more inflammatory and less effectively, a state described by the...

Jun 27 2020

Daily News

Germline Mutation Rate as an Insight into the Pace of Aging

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DNA sequencing over generations can be used to determine individual rates of germline mutation, as mutations present in the child but not the parent must have occurred in the parent...

Jun 26 2020

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Biomedical researchers get closer to why eczema happens

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A new study may help to peel back the layers of unhealthy skin — at least metaphorically speaking — and get closer to a cure.

Jun 26 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Study of Environmental Factors Correlating with the Odds of Becoming a Centenarian

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The evidence to date strongly suggests that environmental factors determine longevity for the vast majority of people. If there are significant longevity-affecting gene variants out there, then they have small...

Jun 26 2020

Daily News

Demonstrating a Senolytic Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy

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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies target specific surface features on other cells by providing T cells with a way to recognize that feature – the CAR. T cells...

Jun 26 2020

Daily News

Sedentary Behavior Raises the Risk of Cancer Mortality

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Living a sedentary lifestyle is known to be harmful to long term health, raising the risk of age-related disease and mortality. Researchers here show that a sedentary life specifically increases...

Jun 25 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Nanoparticles Containing Cyclodextrins to Sequester Cholesterol Do Well in an Atherosclerosis Animal Model

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Cyclodextrins bind to cholesterol. This aspect of their biochemistry has been used by the Underdog Pharmaceuticals team to produce a cyclodextrin that binds the form of toxic oxidized cholesterol known...