On this talk episode of X10, Nazli Eskici of the University of Helsinki discusses stem cells, the cells that form all the functional cells of the body – and the exhaustion of which is one of the hallmarks of aging.
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On this week's Lifespan News, Brent Nally discusses a DNA methylation clock that determines our skin age, fruit flies and caloric restriction, the senescence resistance of aging mole rats, a mitochondrial protein that regulates health and longevity, the "love hormone" oxytocin as a therapy for Alzheimer's disease, and other rejuvenation topics.
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Researchers have found that CLOCK, a protein that regulates the circadian cycle of our cells, also fights cellular senescence by promoting chromatin stability [1]. Since its very beginning, life on Earth had to adapt to our planet’s natural […]
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Epigenetic alterations, which are one of the proposed reasons we age, are the changes to gene expression that our cells experience as we […]
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Senescent cells accumulate in our bodies as we age, increasing inflammation and raising our risk of suffering from cancer and other age-related diseases. A new biotech startup plans to reset aged senescent cells to a youthful state to […]
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A new study published in Cell Stem Cell has shown how astrocytes, glial cells that perform multiple critical functions in […]
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This episode of Lifespan News features Brent Nally discussing how hair regrowth technology could help with hearing loss, super-agers' resistance to tau and amyloid accumulation, and topics that we have covered here on Lifespan.io, including epigenetic clocks, blood factors, and Science to Save the World.
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August 4, 2020
A group of scientists have shown that the SIRT2 protein increases the accumulation of amyloid beta, a known marker of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), in the brains of mice. They propose […]
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