Category: Journal club

Journal Club with Dr. Oliver Medvedik will return on November 23rd at 12:00 Eastern live on our Facebook page. A new study appears to have solved the mystery of how amyloid beta, a key player in Alzheimer’s, forms in brain nerve cells. The data suggests that the sigma-1 receptor may be a therapeutic target for...

The next Journal Club will be on Tuesday 2nd November and Dr. Oliver Medvedik will be taking a look at a new paper called “Targeted clearance of senescent cells using an antibody-drug conjugate against a specific membrane marker“. Join us live on Facebook at 1 PM Eastern US time on Tuesday November 2nd. Abstract A...

Journal Club returns on July 27th at noon Eastern / 17:00 UK live on our Facebook page. A new way to look at Alzheimer's The topic for this month will be a new study that challenges the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease with new human data. The data suggests that the cognitive impairment that accompanies...

Journal Club returns live to our Facebook channel on June 29th at noon Eastern Time with Dr. Oliver Medvedik. This month, we are taking a look at rapamycin, a drug that has long been believed to slow down aging, and how it changes the way DNA is stored inside cells to support gut health and...

The Journal Club hosted by Dr. Oliver Medvedik returns for another episode on May 25th at noon Eastern / 5 UK time live on our Facebook page. This month, we have one of the authors, Dr. Vadim Gladyshev, joining us, and he will be talking us through this new research. Vadim and his team report...

The Journal Club hosted by Dr. Oliver Medvedik will return live to our Facebook Page at 12:00 EST on Tuesday 27th of April. This month we will be taking a look at a new paper and technique for the gene editing tool CRISPRcas9. The technique allows researchers to turn epigenetic methylation off and back on...