March 23, 2023
The Journal Club returns on Tuesday 28th March at 12:00 PM Eastern time to the Lifespan.io Facebook channel. This month Dr. Oliver Medvedik will be exploring a recent study which looked at the effects of prolonged fasting on human macrophages and how metabolites from that fasting increased median lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Abstract Periodic prolonged...
February 21, 2023
The Journal Club, hosted by Dr. Oliver Medvedik, returns to the Lifespan.io Facebook page at 12:00 on Tuesday, February 28th. This month, we are covering a recent paper that showed a method of restoring youthful collagen production in aged skin [1]. If you would like some background, check out our article 'New Way to Help...
January 25, 2023
The journal club returns on Tuesday 31st January at 12:00 Eastern on our Facebook page with host Dr. Oliver Medvedik. We are looking at a preprint this time where partial reprogramming factors were used to reverse some aspects of aging in old mice. The paper is called Gene Therapy Mediated Partial Reprogramming Extends Lifespan and...
December 16, 2022
The Journal Club returns for the last time this year at 12:00 Eastern on Tuesday 20th on the Lifespan.io Facebook page. This month, Dr. Oliver Medvedik is taking a look at a new paper that explores phytocannabinoids in the context of skin aging and rejuvenation. Phytocannabinoids are cannabinoids that occur naturally in the cannabis plant...
November 23, 2022
The Journal Club returns at 12:00 Eastern time, November 29th. Dr. Medvedik will be taking a look at the recent paper entitled "Rapamycin treatment during development extends life span and health span of male mice and Daphnia magna". Abstract Development is tightly connected to aging, but whether pharmacologically targeting development can extend life remains unknown....
October 04, 2022
Journal Club returns live on our Facebook channel on October 25th at 12:00 Eastern time. Dr. Oliver Medvedik will be taking a look at a recent study published in Nature Aging that has shown that short-term rapamycin treatment in early adulthood extends lifespan in flies and improves gut health in both flies and mice [1]....
