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Tag: Eyes

Fly eye
A new study published in Nature has reported on how caloric restriction, circadian rhythms, and molecular clocks interact to affect the ocular health and lifespan of fruit flies. Circadian rhythms, clock genes, and photoreceptors The researchers begin their paper by discussing the concept of circadian rhythms, which are the 24-hour cycles that organisms have evolved...
Mouse eating
Publishing in Microbiome, a team of researchers has ascertained multiple physical effects of aging gut flora in mice. Antibiotics and fecal transfers The researchers used three groups of mice: young (3 months), old (18 months), and aged (24 months). Young and old groups were divided into a control group, an antibiotics group, and three recipient...
Eye
A team of researchers, including Dr. Patrick Yu-Wai-Man from the University of Cambridge and Dr. José-Alain Sahel from the University of Pittsburgh and Institut de la Vision, Paris, has successfully treated 37 participants suffering from Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). A landmark trial for mitochondrial gene therapy The results of this phase 3 clinical trial...
Eye
Another senolytic drug candidate has entered development at Unity Biotechnologies. The purpose of senolytics is to clear the body of harmful senescent cells, which accumulate with age and encourage age-related diseases to develop. A new treatment for age-related diseases of the eye Recently, UNITY Biotechnologies announced the selection of a new lead drug, UBX1967, with...