Skincare

May 30 2020

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Researchers identify mechanisms that make skin a protective barrier

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A research team has identified one of the mechanisms that establish the skin as a protective barrier, a breakthrough that is critical to understanding and treating common skin conditions including...

May 30 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Disruption of T Cell Mitochondrial Function Produces Accelerated Aging Symptoms in Mice

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One has to be cautious about studies in which metabolism is broken in some way, and symptoms of aging start to appear earlier as a result. Whether or not this...

May 30 2020

Daily News

Reviewing the Prospects for Nicotinamide Mononucleotide Supplementation to Raise NAD+ Levels and Improve Health

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A fair amount of effort is presently put towards the exploration of supplements derived from vitamin B3 compounds (nicotinamide, niacin, nicotinamide riboside) that act as precursors to enable the manufacture...

May 30 2020

Daily News

Visceral Fat Behaves Differently in Long-Lived Dwarf Mice

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A few varieties of dwarf mice exhibit considerable longevity. They are produced via forms of mutation that disable portions of growth hormone metabolism, such as via growth hormone receptor knockout....

May 29 2020

Of Interest

Forever Healthy Foundation Publishes a Risk-Benefit Analysis of Dasatinib and Quercetin as a Senolytic Therapy

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The Forever Healthy Foundation publishes a series of conservative risk-benefit analyses of presently available interventions that might prove beneficial in addressing aspects of aging. These range widely in proven effectiveness,...

May 29 2020

Daily News

Further Evidence for Exercise to Improve Memory via Increased Blood Flow

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To what degree is increased blood flow to the brain the important mechanism mediating the beneficial effects of exercise on memory? Exercise improves memory both in the very short term,...

May 29 2020

Daily News

Greater Exercise Correlates with Improved Functional Connectivity in the Aging Brain

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Researchers here investigate detailed measures of brain function over time, and correlate them with the level of physical activity. There is plenty of evidence for greater physical activity to slow...

May 28 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Calorie Restriction versus the Aging of Microglia

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Microglia are immune cells of the brain, analogous to macrophages in the rest of the body. They take on a broad range of tasks: chasing down pathogens; clearing up cell...

May 28 2020

Daily News

Somatic Chromosomal Mosaicism as a Mechanism of Aging and Disease

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Stochastic mutational damage to nuclear DNA occurs constantly in the body, and near all of it is quickly repaired. Most unrepaired damage occurs in DNA that isn’t used, or the...

May 28 2020

Daily News

Delivery of Cadherin-13 Slows the Onset of Osteoporosis in Mice

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Bone is a dynamic structure, constantly built up by osteoblasts and torn down by osteoclasts. In youth there is a balance between these two cell types, but the processes of...