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Scientists Identify New Differences Between the Sexes in Age-Related Changes to Brain Stem Cells

April 12, 2021
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Skokie, IL — Ageing and age-related brain disease do not affect women and men in the same way. The adult brain constantly generates new brain cells called neurons from stem cells, a process called...

Study Reveals How Long-Term Infection and Inflammation Impairs Immune Response as We Age

March 26, 2021
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Houston, TX — Humans are born with tens of thousands of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that collectively ensure lifelong production of blood and immune cells that protect us from infections. HSCs...

The Bald Truth – Altered Cell Divisions Cause Hair Thinning

March 17, 2021
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Tokyo, Japan — Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify a novel mechanism underlying hair thinning and loss during ageing Hair grows from stem cells residing in hair...

Research Discovers How Telomere Involvement in Tumour Generation is Regulated

March 11, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — The Telomeres and Telomerase Group led by Maria A. Blasco at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) continues to make progress in unravelling the role that telomeres -the...

New, Highly Precise ‘Clock’ can Measure Biological Age

March 4, 2021
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Cologne, Germany — Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘ageing clock’ that reads the biological age of an organism...

Reactivating Ageing Stem Cells in the Brain

February 25, 2021
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Zürich, Switzerland — The stem cells in our brain generate new neurons throughout life, for example in the hippocampus. This region of the brain plays a key role for a range of memory processes. With...

A Machine-Learning Approach to Finding Treatment Options for Covid-19

February 15, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. “Making new drugs takes forever,”...

‘Smart’ Cartilage Cells Programmed to Release Drugs when Stressed

January 28, 2021
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St. Louis, MO — Working to develop new treatments for osteoarthritis, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have genetically engineered cartilage to deliver an anti-inflammatory...

Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Ageing

January 21, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Suppose Smokey the Bear were to go on a tear and start setting forest fires instead of putting them out. That roughly describes the behaviour of certain cells of our immune system that...

Telomere Shortening Protects Against Cancer

December 2, 2020
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New York, NY — As time goes by, the tips of your chromosomes–called telomeres–become shorter. This process has long been viewed as an unwanted side-effect of ageing, but a recent study...

Researchers Uncover the Unique Way Stem Cells Protect Their Chromosome Ends

November 27, 2020
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London, UK — Telomeres are specialised structures at the end of chromosomes which protect our DNA and ensure healthy division of cells. According to a new study from researchers at the Francis Crick...

Study Pinpoints Target for Managing Inflammation, Promoting Tissue Repair

November 17, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — Managing the activity of the BCAP protein could help the body repair intestinal tissue from damage caused by inflammation, according to a new study led by experts at Cincinnati Children’s. The...

Genetic Disposition Protects Immune System from Ageing

November 11, 2020
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Bonn, Germany — A genetic disposition that plays a role in the development of the heart in the embryo also appears to play a key role in the human immune system. This is shown by a recent study led...

Cell Ageing can be Slowed by Oxidants

November 9, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — At high concentrations, reactive oxygen species – known as oxidants – are harmful to cells in all organisms and have been linked to ageing. But a study from Chalmers...

Identified a Subgroup of Stem Cells that Resists Ageing and Maintains Muscle Regeneration

October 29, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Researchers at UPF, the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, ICREA and Ciberned have identified a physiological mechanism that maintains the regenerative capacity of muscle...

Nanodevices Show How Living Cells Change with Time, by Tracking from Inside

October 22, 2020
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Bath, UK — For the first time, scientists have introduced minuscule tracking devices directly into the interior of mammalian cells, giving an unprecedented peek into the processes that govern the beginning...

Study Indicates that Hair Loss might be Prevented by Regulating Stem Cell Metabolism

October 15, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — Hair follicle stem cells, which promote hair growth, can prolong their life by switching their metabolic state. In experiments conducted with mice, a research group active in Helsinki...

Understanding the Effect of Ageing on the Genome

October 1, 2020
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Lausanne, Switzerland — Time may be our worst enemy, and ageing its most powerful weapon. Our hair turns grey, our strength wanes, and a slew of age-related diseases represent what is happening at...

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