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Understanding the Circadian Clocks of Individual Cells

July 2, 2020
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Dallas, TX — Two new studies led by UT Southwestern scientists outline how individual cells maintain their internal clocks, driven both through heritable and random means. These findings, published...

Protein in Mitochondria Appears to Regulate Health and Longevity

June 25, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — A new study led by researchers at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology is the first to demonstrate that a tiny protein has a big impact on health and longevity in both animals...

Diluting Blood Plasma Rejuvenates Tissue, Reverses Ageing in Mice

June 16, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — In 2005, University of California, Berkeley, researchers made the surprising discovery that making conjoined twins out of young and old mice — such that they share blood and organs...

Study Links Elevated Levels of Advanced Glycation End-Products (AGEs) with Breast Cancer Risk

June 15, 2020
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Charleston, SC — Hollings Cancer Center researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and colleagues assessed the connection between dietary advanced glycation end products (AGEs)...

T Cell Immunity in Elderly

June 8, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — A study by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) expands the understanding of the molecular pathways that control T cell function and survival and how it relates to declining...

High Uric Acid Levels Benefit Women’s Lungs in Ageing and Disease

June 8, 2020
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Kumamoto, Japan — Researchers at Kumamoto University in Japan have discovered that uric acid, an antioxidant, protects against declining lung function from age or lung disease, especially in women....

New Evidence for Blood-Based Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease

May 28, 2020
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Boston, MA — A potential blood-based biomarker for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases seems even more promising thanks to new research from a Massachusetts General Hospital-led...

Subcellular Chatter Regulates Longevity

May 21, 2020
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Firenze FI, Italy — As people get older, they often feel less energetic, mobile or active. This may be due in part to a decline in mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses inside of our cells, which provide...

Tracking Organism’s Development, Cell by Cell

May 18, 2020
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Boston, MA — Scientists at the Stem Cell Research program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School have devised a mouse model that lets researchers...

New Biomarker for Ageing Brain

May 11, 2020
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have identified changes in the ageing brain related to blood circulation. Published in the scientific...

Real-Time Observation of Enzymatic Processes on DNA

May 4, 2020
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Konstanz, Germany — DNA strand breaks can lead to cell death or to mutations and thus contribute in the long term to cancer development or the ageing process. Fortunately, cells possess molecular tools...

‘Frailty’ From Age 40 — What to Look out for

April 15, 2020
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Bedford Park, SA, Australia — With all eyes on avoiding major illness this year, health researchers are urging people as young as 40 to build physical and mental health to reduce or even avoid ‘frailty’...

Scientist Proposes Clinical Trials with Low-Dose Rapamycin to Protect Elderly from COVID-19

April 7, 2020
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London, UK — The Biogerontology Research Foundation, a registered UK charity supporting and promoting ageing and longevity research worldwide since 2008, today announced the publication of a paper...

How to Boost Immune Response to Vaccines in Older People

March 28, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Research just published by the Linterman lab shows that the immune system of older mice can be given a helping hand by applying immunology expertise and some genital wart treatment...

How to Slow Down Ageing?

March 23, 2020
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Tartu, Estonia — Healthy ageing has become one of the priorities of research in Europe. University of Tartu researchers looked for differences in the immune systems of young and old people. They focused...

Rapamycin has Harmful Effects When Telomeres are Short, Scientist Discovers

March 5, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — In the past few decades, it was discovered that the rate at which we age is strongly influenced by biochemical processes that, at least in animal models, can be controlled in the laboratory....

Why Do Men — and Other Male Animals — Tend to Die Younger? It’s All in Y Chromosome

March 5, 2020
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Kensington, Australia — According to popular theory, men live shorter lives than women because they take bigger risks, have more dangerous jobs, drink and smoke more, and are poor at seeking advice...

Eat Less, Live Longer: Scientists Show How Caloric Restriction Prevents Negative Effects of Ageing in Cells

February 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — If you want to reduce levels of inflammation throughout your body, delay the onset of age-related diseases, and live longer–eat less food. That’s the conclusion of a new...

Brain Cells Protect Muscles from Wasting Away

February 24, 2020
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Berkeley, CA — While many of us worry about proteins aggregating in our brains as we age and potentially causing Alzheimer’s disease or other types of neurodegeneration, we may not realize that...

Human Gut-in-a-Dish Model Helps Define ‘Leaky Gut,’ and Outline Pathway to Treatment

February 11, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Once a vague scapegoat for a variety of ills, increasing evidence suggests a condition known as “leaky gut” — in which microbes and other molecules seep out of the...

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