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Jun 06 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Reuse of a Small Molecule to Increase Autophagy in the Brain is Trialed for Alzheimer’s Disease

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Today I’ll point out an example of drug reuse and autophagy upregulation. The processes of autophagy are responsible for recycling molecular waste and broken cellular structures. Autophagy is upregulated in...

Jun 06 2020

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Engineering Viruses that Only Replicate in Cancer Cells

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One of the many interesting approaches to targeting cancer cells for destruction is the use of viruses that are largely innocuous to humans, but replicate preferentially in cells exhibiting the...

Jun 06 2020

Daily News

Stem Cell Therapy Reverses Aspects of Photoaging in Skin

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With few exceptions, the worldwide community of clinics offering first generation stem cell therapies is not usually a source of reliable data. They don’t tend to conduct trials or even...

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

Daily News

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

Daily News

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...