Medical research
Could bats hold the secret to healthy ageing?
In the fictional links he drew between immortal vampires and bats, Dracula creator Bram Stoker may have had one thing right.
Aug 26, 2021
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Medical research
Pituitary gland aging can potentially be slowed down
Stem cell biologist Hugo Vankelecom (KU Leuven) and his colleagues have discovered that the pituitary gland in mice ages as the result of an age-related form of chronic inflammation. It may be possible to slow down this process ...
Jun 15, 2021
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HIV & AIDS
People with HIV are at higher risk of ageing-related genetic changes
We don't know enough about biological processes in people who are aging with HIV—a new study sheds light on the matter.
Jun 8, 2021
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Medical research
Researchers increase life expectancy in mice by an average of 30%
Aging is associated with an overall decline in health and increased frailty, and is a major risk factor for multiple chronic diseases. Frailty syndrome, characterized by weakness, fatigue and low physical activity, affects ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Associations between aging and the loss of the ability to recover from stress
The research team of Gero, a Singapore-based biotech company in collaboration with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo NY, has presented a study in Nature Communications on associations between aging and the ...
May 25, 2021
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Inflammatory disorders
DNA building blocks regulate inflammation
Mitochondria are the energy suppliers of our body cells. These tiny cell components have their own genetic material, which triggers an inflammatory response when released into the interior of the cell. The reasons for the ...
Apr 30, 2021
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Neuroscience
Study reveals immune driver of brain aging
Suppose Smokey the Bear were to go on a tear and start setting forest fires instead of putting them out. That roughly describes the behavior of certain cells of our immune system that become increasingly irascible as we grow ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Medical research
Aging, diet-induced obesity, and metabolic disease link explored in new research
Unraveling the links among obesity, aging, telomere lengths and metabolic diseases is the subject of the study published today in Nature Metabolism by a collaborative research team at The University of Texas Health Science ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Genetics
Study finds hyperbaric oxygen treatments reverse aging process
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Shamir Medical Center in Israel indicates that hyperbaric oxygen treatments (HBOT) in healthy aging adults can stop the aging of blood cells and reverse the aging process. ...
Nov 20, 2020
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Medical research
Chronic inflammation causes a reduction in NAD+
NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), a key metabolite central to an efficient and healthy metabolism, declines with age. This previously unexplained phenomena is associated with numerous age-related diseases and has ...
Nov 16, 2020
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