You might not think of diabetes when you think of muscle function. But a common diabetes drug that regulates blood sugar can also prevent muscle atrophy and muscular fibrosis—which can help the elderly bounce back faster ...
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The lack of a key signaling molecule in certain immune cells can induce various age-related diseases in young mice, RIKEN researchers have shown. This finding eventually could help to develop new treatments for age-related ...
Jun 6, 2023
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Mutating cells can prevent the spread of cancer by flipping themselves into a state of reduced activity called senescence. Cancer genes, however, can retaliate by reviving those cells so they can replicate again.
Apr 21, 2023
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Aging (senescent) cells, which stop dividing but don't die, can accumulate in the body over the years and fuel chronic inflammation that contributes to conditions such as cancer and degenerative disorders.
Mar 30, 2023
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Older adults with depression are actually aging faster than their peers, UConn Center on Aging researchers report.
Mar 22, 2023
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Glioblastomas are the most common malignant tumors of the adult brain. They resist conventional treatment, including surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Despite this armamentarium, glioblastomas inexorably ...
Feb 21, 2023
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After decades of fundamental scientific and drug discovery research, Alzheimer's disease has remained inscrutable and incurable, with a bare minimum of therapeutic progress. But in a new review article in Nature Neuroscience, ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Thanks to advances in cancer therapies, most forms of breast cancer are highly treatable, especially when caught early.
Dec 15, 2022
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Despite decades of research, Alzheimer's disease remains a debilitating and eventually fatal dementia with no effective treatment options. More than 95 percent of Alzheimer's disease cases have no known origin. Now, scientists ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Liver cancer's rapid growth leads to a vulnerability in its energy-production and cell-building processes that may be potently exploited with a new combination-treatment strategy, according to a study from researchers at ...
Aug 2, 2022
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