Month: October 2021

Researchers have found that the protein fortilin, which is abundant in the heart, protects it from failure by blocking apoptotic activity. This discovery opens new possibilities in treating age-related heart diseases [1]. When your heart fails you As menacing at it sounds, heart failure (HF) does not mean that your heart has completely failed, just...

A team of researchers, including Dr. James Kirkland of Mayo Clinic, has published a review of the ongoing efforts of researchers to clear senescent cells through senolytics. Why We Age: Cellular SenescenceAs your body ages, more of your cells become senescent. Senescent cells do not divide or support the tissues of which they are part;...

Michael Geer is a successful serial entrepreneur who came to the longevity field to get things going. He and his co-founder Pete Ward have recently launched the app Humanity, which offers its users ways to monitor their rates of aging and makes actionable suggestions as to how to slow those rates down. We talked to...

The latest research out of the Journal of Cell Biology shines a light on why our skin loses its healing abilities as we age. The skin’s ability to regenerate dramatically decreases with age. Injuries that would have healed in days without a trace in childhood can take weeks to heal, leave behind scars, or even...

Two of the most prominent experts in the field have published a review of cellular senescence in the context of metabolism, and we bring you the highlights [1]. We rarely cover review papers, but when Cristopher D. Wiley and Judith Campisi, two of the most prominent experts on senescent cells, publish a review on senescence...

A team of researchers publishing in Aging have shown that resveratrol reduces inflammation and partially restores function in a rat model of spinal injury. In line with previous research This is far from the first study that aimed to use approaches associated with aging research in order to spur regeneration. For example, we have previously...