Tag: Salk Institute

At our 2019 Ending Age-related Diseases conference in New York City, we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Michael West, the CEO of AgeX Therapeutics. Dr. West can rightfully be called a pioneer in his field with a substantial background in biomedical and biotechnology corporations. After completing his PhD at Baylor College of Medicine,...

Researchers from the Salk Institute have discovered that a protein called Chrdl1, secreted by astrocytes, is responsible for driving synapse maturation and limiting brain plasticity later in life [1]. Abstract In the developing brain, immature synapses contain calcium-permeable AMPA glutamate receptors (AMPARs) that are subsequently replaced with GluA2-containing calcium-impermeable AMPARs as synapses stabilize and mature....

Thanks to a new technique, researchers from the Salk Institute's Gage laboratory have shown that impaired energy production might be a reason why human brains are susceptible to age-related diseases in the first place [1]. In particular, Salk scientists observed that induced neurons (iNs) obtained from fibroblasts of older individuals had dysfunctional mitochondria and therefore...

Novel therapeutic approaches may often require quite a bit of lateral thinking, as researchers at the Salk Institute have recently shown in a study presenting a novel method to interfere with cancer growth. The problem with cancer In a nutshell, the reason cancer is such an insidious enemy is that its cells divide uncontrollably, leading...