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Revolutionizing Age-Related Disease Management: The Promise of Senolytic CAR T Cells
Recent developments in immunotherapy offer a glimmer of hope in the pursuit of longevity and the alleviation of age-related diseases. Utilizing engineered chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells, a recent study has shed light on a promising new approach to combating the effects of aging, particularly metabolic dysfunction and decreased physical fitness (Amor C, Fernández-Maestre I, Chowdhury S. et al. Prophylactic and long-lasting efficacy of senolytic CAR T cells against
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Mar 7, 2024


Putting the Brakes on DNA Transcription to Slow the Aging Process
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]In the pursuit of unraveling the mysteries of aging, researchers have long...
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Jul 20, 2023


Serine Supplementation Could Mitigate Cognitive Impairments of an Aging Hypothalamus
The hypothalamus is an area of the brain responsible for regulating a wide range of bodily functions, including metabolism, body...
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Apr 17, 2023


Can Ultrasound Therapy Delay Aging?
Senescence and Aging In 1961, Leonard Hayflick first observed that cultured cells ceased replicating after a finite number of divisions....
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Mar 7, 2023


New Study Supports the “Information Theory of Aging” and Its Potential to Combat Aging
The information theory of aging suggests that aging results from the accumulation of errors in an organism’s genetic code over its...
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Feb 9, 2023


The Key to Getting More Mileage Out of the Brain: Change the Fluids
A recent study from Stanford University School of Medicine demonstrates the partial restoration of brain function in old mice with...
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May 25, 2022


Turning Back the Cellular Clock
Thinking of biological aging as analogous to a clock, research has given us two distinct avenues of lifespan-extending intervention: the...
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Mar 31, 2022


Can We Be Immunized Against Old Age?
Vaccines have been on the mind of almost everyone for the last two years. Undoubtedly, vaccines have led to a near incalculable benefit...
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Feb 23, 2022


Erectile Dysfunction Pill Shows Promise as Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutic
According to the CDC, an estimated 5.8 million people over age 65 suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a population predicted to triple...
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Jan 7, 2022


Parasite Affords Extreme Lifespan to Ants
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Oct 18, 2021
Can exercise prevent “inflamm-aging”?
Researchers from Mayo Clinic have uncovered a novel way in which exercise may contribute to healthy aging by suppressing an age-related...
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Aug 16, 2021


OFAS Hosting Session at AGE 47th Annual Meeting
For years, Orentreich Foundation for the Advancement of Science has researched biomedical interventions to prevent, halt, or reverse...
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Jun 1, 2018


How Mindfulness Protects You as You Get Older
In our minds, old age is often associated with negative outcomes, such as a decline in physical health, but research consistently finds...
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Apr 11, 2018


Researchers Find Reversible Cause of Vascular Aging
The hallmarks of aging in skeletal muscle include endothelial cell dysfunction, impaired microcapillary formation, and a progressive...
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Apr 10, 2018
Disease prevention and delayed aging by dietary sulfur amino acid restriction: translational implica
#aging #Dong #methionine #SAAR
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Apr 1, 2018


Can Drugs Delay the Onset of Age-Related Diseases?
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Over the past ten years, understanding of the physiological changes that...
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Feb 20, 2018


The role of autophagy in the regulation of yeast life span
Aging is a complex, multifactorial process that is driven by the progressive accumulation of several types of cellular damage. Functional...
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Feb 8, 2018


High Fat Diet Improves Healthspan and Memory
A recent study has demonstrated that a ketogenic diet significantly improved memory in aging mice and increased the animal’s chances of...
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Sep 22, 2017


High Fat Diet Extends Longevity and Healthspan
As more people age well past their 70s, researchers have increasingly explored the issues of health and quality of life during aging. A...
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Sep 22, 2017


Cellular Rejunevation – One Step Closer to Understanding Human Aging
In order to delay aging, the process of aging must first be understood; that the aging of cells is what drives the aging of an organism....
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Aug 18, 2017
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