Skincare

May 09 2020

Daily News

Correlating Structural Changes in the Hippocampus with Memory Decline

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Memory function declines with age. Some part of this is the result of outright structural damage in the brain, caused by the periodic rupture of small blood vessels that kills...

May 09 2020

Daily News

MiR-375 and Autophagy in the Progression of Osteoarthritis

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Much of the work that the research community conducts on age-related disease is similar to the example here: attempting to pick apart the proximate causes of pathology in an altered,...

May 08 2020

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Skin-to-skin ‘kangaroo care’ shows important benefits for premature babies

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A world-first study has demonstrated significant benefits to a premature baby’s heart and brain function when held by the parent in skin-to-skin contact. Parent-infant skin-to-skin care (SSC) or kangaroo care,...

May 08 2020

2020, All, Anti-Aging, Sunscreens & Sun Protection, Zinc oxide

The “Best” Sunscreen (and what about the Image sunscreen change?).

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Hi Jeff  –  I loved your question and comment above. I’m still looking into this.  So far…..and I’m keeping an open mind, this seems like an expense ploy to me. ...

May 08 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

A Mitochondrial Signal of Sarcopenia and Frailty Found in Small Extracellular Vesicles

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Much of the signaling that passes between cells is carried in extracellular vesicles, small membrane-wrapped packages of molecules. There are numerous classes of such vesicle, varying in size, such as...

May 08 2020

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Improving Transplanted Stem Cell Function via Tethered Signal Molecules

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The field of biotechnology is churns with inventive technology demonstrations; this is an era of creativity, unleashed by a rapid advance in knowledge and capabilities. Here, researchers are presented with...

May 08 2020

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Towards an Amyloid-β Sequestering Nanoparticle to Block Protein Aggregation

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Researchers here report on development of a nanoparticle that sweeps up the amyloid-β associated with Alzheimer’s disease, preventing it from forming aggregates. When stuck to the nanoparticle, amyloid-β will not...

May 07 2020

Medicine, Biotech, Research

Another Example of a Galactose-Conjugated Senolytic Prodrug

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Killing cells is easy. Killing only the cells that you want to kill, while leaving all other cells untouched, is very much more challenging. The ability to do this is...

May 07 2020

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Towards Ionomic Aging Clocks

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The ionome is the elemental composition of a tissue, organ, or individual. This composition changes over the course of aging, and may do so in ways that allow the production...

May 07 2020

Daily News

Rapamycin Slows Age-Related Periodontitis in Mice

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The mTOR inhibitor rapamycin slows the progression of aging in mice. The may largely be a result of upregulated autophagy, as is the case for many other means of slowing...