Leg muscle action assists blood flow independently of age
Credit: Kanazawa University Chronic lower-limb edema (CLE) -- the permanent accumulation of fluid in the leg -- often occurs in ...
Tag: Gerontology
USC Stem Cell study reveals neural stem cells age rapidly
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC conduct first-ever study of Abl1 gene's role in neural stem cell biology ...
AGS names Dr. Faith Atai Clinician of the Year
Credit: UTHealth The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today named Faith Atai, MD, a skilled clinician and medical administrator with a ...
AGS honors Dr. Helen Fernandez for outstanding contributions to geriatrics education
Credit: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today announced that Helen Fernandez, MD, MPH, ...
University of South Florida receives five-year, $44.4 million NIH grant to study dementia
The NIH-funded trial will test whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of mild cognitive impairment, and dementias ...
Insilico to present the latest advances in chemistry AI at ACS Spring 2021
Credit: Insilico April 6, 2021 - Insilico Medicine, a global leader in deep learning for drug discovery and development, will ...
Less sugar, please! New studies show low glucose levels might assist muscle repair
Skeletal muscle satellite cells found to grow better with less glucose in vitroCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers ...
The first non-invasive biomarker to track and verify efficacy of senolytic drugs
The discovery and development of a lipid-metabolite biomarker is expected to facilitate research and clinical trials of drugs that target ...
GSA’s KAER toolkit promotes care conversations on brain health, cognitive status
Credit: The Gerontological Society of America The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) has released a new edition of its KAER ...
AllianThera Biopharma comes out of stealth and collaborates on AI with Insilico Medicine
AllianThera Biopharma lead by ex-pharma veterans, Dr. Yuan-Hua Ding and Dr. Javier Cote-Sierra partnered with an AI-driven drug discovery company, ...
During the first wave of coronavirus pandemic older adults left home mainly for physical activity
Older adults drastically reduced their out-of-home activitiesCredit: Photo: University of Jyväskylä In spring 2020, when the first wave of the ...
Stem cell therapy shows promise against age-related muscle loss
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University As the name implies, induced pluripotent stem cells can become any type of cell in ...
World-first aged care monitoring and alert technology unveiled
New smart monitoring system features innovative sensor tech developed by RMIT UniversityCredit: Sleeptite Pioneering technology that can deliver real-time and ...
Aging-US: Aging and rejuvenation – a modular epigenome model
This www.Aging-US.com study reports that epigenetic rejuvenation seems to hold the key to arresting or even reversing organismal agingCredit: Correspondence ...
Aging-US: Aging phenotype of MDPL syndrome associated with impaired DNA repair capacity
'These www.Aging-US.com results suggest an alteration in DNA replication/repair function of POLD1 as a primary pathogenetic cause of MDPL.'Credit: Correspondence ...
Aging-US: Adiposity & Muscle Function: a community-based cross-sectional study
Dr. Wei-Shiung Yang from The National Taiwan University Hospital said, "The impact of muscle mass or muscle strength on functional ...
Open door to treatment of renal fibrosis by showing that it is caused by telomere shortening
Renal fibrosis leads to kidney failure, which can only be treated by dialysis and whose incidence is increasing due to ...
Beyond genes and environment, random variations play important role in longevity
A new model of aging takes into account not only genetics and environmental exposures but also the tiny changes that ...
Targeting mechanosensitive protein could treat pulmonary fibrosis, study suggests
Credit: ©2021 Qu et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20202033 Researchers at the University of Alabama at ...
JNCCN: New evidence on need to address muscle health among patients with cancer
Results of new study underscore the need for the development and testing of nutrition and fitness interventions, as muscle quality ...
