by Ageing and Longevity | Jan 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Summary: Main takeaway – the future of cellular reprogramming is bright, but there are still major hurdles to overcome before the technology can be used in a clinical setting. Cellular reprogramming is the process of reverting a cell to an earlier state. This paper...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Dec 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Summary: Main takeaway – continuing partial cellular reprogramming a bit further than most previous attempts seems to result in more substantial rejuvenation. Usually, scientists stop partial reprogramming in the initiation phase, when cells still have not lost their...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
More than two years have passed since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and it is still very much a public health issue for everyone. While many countries have loosened control over the disease considering the reduced virulence of the more infectious SARS-CoV2...
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by Ageing and Longevity | May 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Using whole genome sequencing, an international team of scientists have potentially uncovered the secret to how semi-supercentenarians and supercentenarians live so long. The team showed that these individuals had efficient DNA repair mechanisms with reduced...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Fascinatingly, sociality in invertebrates is associated with longevity and plasticity of the pace of ageing. To reveal more about this phenomenon, Rau and colleges looked at how non-reproducing and reproducing termites responded to environmental stress in the form of...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
A team in America analysing gut microbiome outputs in blood samples found evidence for a potential link between ageing patterns and microbiome composition in the gut. They identified that healthy ageing in individuals could be partly predicted by a depletion of core...
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