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Jun 05 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The Genomic Rearchitecture of Cellular Senescence

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Cellular senescence is important in aging. Cells can become senescent in response to damage, a toxic environment, or reaching the Hayflick limit on replication. Senescent cells undergo profound changes to...

Jun 05 2020

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Promoting Autophagy to Restore Function in the Aging Liver

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The processes of autophagy recycle damaged and unwanted structures and proteins in cells. Increased autophagy is involved in the beneficial response to calorie restriction and numerous other mild forms of...

Jun 05 2020

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Exercise Increases Ubiquitination to Clear Damaged Proteins

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The ubiquitin-proteasome system is one of the ways in which cells remove damaged and unwanted proteins. Proteins are tagged with ubiquitin, which allows them to enter a proteasome and be...

Jun 04 2020

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Hairy, lab-grown human skin cell model could advance hair loss research

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A new, hair-sprouting dollop of human skin created in the lab might one day help prevent hair loss. An article describes the hairy creation as the first hair-baring human skin...

Jun 04 2020

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Oily fish and diabetes prevention

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Experts recommend people with diabetes consume a serve of oily fish 2-3 times a week. Here we explain why, and options for those who don’t like it. The post Oily...

Jun 04 2020

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DEXA Scanning for Body Composition

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This fact sheet explains how a DEXA test can be used to measure body composition, particularly what percentage of fat there is in the body. The post DEXA Scanning for...

Jun 04 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Reviewing Proteomic Studies of Cellular Senescence

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In today’s open access paper, the authors survey the work of the past decade in the use of proteomics to assess the consequences of cellular senescence. Senescent cells accumulate with...

Jun 04 2020

Daily News

The Role of Autophagy in the Beneficial Effects of Exercise

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Autophagy is the name given to a collection of processes responsible for recycling damaged or otherwise unwanted structures and proteins in the cell. With age, autophagy becomes less efficient. Many...

Jun 04 2020

Daily News

Targeting the Failure of Mitophagy as a Basis for Treating Age-Related Disease

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Evidence strongly suggests that the global faltering of mitochondrial function throughout the body with advancing age has a lot to do with a decline in the effectiveness of mitophagy. Mitochondria...

Jun 03 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

The Negligible Senescence of Sea Urchins

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Aging as we understand it is almost a universal phenomenon in animals. Clearly there is something advantageous in evolutionary terms in having disposable individuals carry the immortal germline forward in...