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Rejuvenation Roundup May

Rejuvenation Roundup May 2021

Another month passes, and more progress is made! As we kick off the beginning of summer, we have plenty of news to report regarding our upcoming conference and current campaign

AKG may be a useful supplement for slowing down aging.

What is alpha-ketoglutarate? A Summary of AKG

Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG) has long been a popular sports supplement and is often used in the bodybuilding world, but interest in this molecule has now reached the aging research field due

PEARL AMA

Ask the PEARL Team Anything!

Today, we want to announce we are doing an AMA on Reddit Futurology! The Ask Me Anything thread will be open May 28 and 29 for pre-questions, and on May

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Oisín Announces $5 Million in New Seed Funding

Today, Oisín Biotechnologies, a well-known developer of senolytics, drugs that destroy harmful senescent cells, has announced that it has more than doubled its total funding through an oversubscribed round. This

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Cytosolic dsDNA as a Marker of Senescence

Senescent cells are surprisingly hard to identify, but a recent publication in Tissue and Cell makes the case for using cytoplasmic DNA as a marker of senescence. What makes a

Overwork

Overwork Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have revealed that a considerable part of all deaths from ischemic heart disease and stroke worldwide is caused by working

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OSKM in Early Life Increases Lifespan in Mice

An article preprint published on bioRxiv shows that a single OSKM treatment in early life provides lifelong benefits in mice. A single reset versus lifetime resetting The team chose a

The Hallmarks of aging are the nine proposed reasons we age.

Move Beyond the Hallmarks, Urges New Paper

The hallmarks of aging, as presented in a 2013 paper [1], have been useful but do not provide a genuine explanatory paradigm, argue David Gems of University College London and

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Elevant’s Leaders Introduce Elevant Prime

Elevant launched its first product, Prime, in January 2021. Prime is a daily NMN supplement featuring a unique form of cGMP-manufactured NMN called NMN-C. Guillaume Bermond is a French entrepreneur

Elderly twins

Twin Study Shows That Diet and Exercise Lower Biological Age

Chinese scientists have performed a study on homozygous twins to determine how lifestyle factors – smoking, drinking, physical activity, and diet – affect biological age according to two biological age clocks. Their findings were a mixed bag, but they found evidence for eating lots of fruits

Rejuvenation Roundup May

Rejuvenation Roundup May 2021

Another month passes, and more progress is made! As we kick off the beginning of summer, we have plenty of news to report regarding our upcoming conference and current campaign along with business news and the latest in rejuvenation research. LEAF News Summer is approaching, and

Elderly woman drinking alcohol

Heavy Alcohol Use Linked to Greater Epigenetic Age in Women

A study funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that excessive alcohol consumption increases the epigenetic age of non-Hispanic White women according to the GrimAge epigenetic clock. A large study with a few conclusive results This study, the first of its kind to show

AKG may be a useful supplement for slowing down aging.

What is alpha-ketoglutarate? A Summary of AKG

Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG) has long been a popular sports supplement and is often used in the bodybuilding world, but interest in this molecule has now reached the aging research field due to its central role in metabolism. What is alpha-ketoglutarate? AKG is a naturally occurring endogenous intermediary

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Resilience as a New Measure of Biological Age

In a new paper published in Nature, a group of scientists led by Peter Fedichev explores human longevity through the concept of loss of resilience, by which the researchers mean the gradual age-related expansion of time that the body needs to recover from stress, such as

PEARL AMA

Ask the PEARL Team Anything!

Today, we want to announce we are doing an AMA on Reddit Futurology! The Ask Me Anything thread will be open May 28 and 29 for pre-questions, and on May 30 and 31, the PEARL team will be answering questions. This is your opportunity to ask

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Long Non-Coding RNAs as an Alternative to Senolytics

New research has identified a set of long noncoding RNAs involved in inflammaging and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) [1]. These RNAs are conserved across a range of species, including humans, and may prove a valuable avenue for controlling senescence. Age-related RNAs RNA can broadly be

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Oisín Announces $5 Million in New Seed Funding

Today, Oisín Biotechnologies, a well-known developer of senolytics, drugs that destroy harmful senescent cells, has announced that it has more than doubled its total funding through an oversubscribed round. This has taken its total funding from $4.5 million to $9.5 million. Named after a legendary Irish

Magnifying glass on DNA

Cytosolic dsDNA as a Marker of Senescence

Senescent cells are surprisingly hard to identify, but a recent publication in Tissue and Cell makes the case for using cytoplasmic DNA as a marker of senescence. What makes a cell senescent? In order to study the behavior of senescent cells, or to treat them with

Overwork

Overwork Linked to Heart Disease and Stroke

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have revealed that a considerable part of all deaths from ischemic heart disease and stroke worldwide is caused by working long hours [1]. Beware of Karoshi What can we do to live longer until science can

Reset button

OSKM in Early Life Increases Lifespan in Mice

An article preprint published on bioRxiv shows that a single OSKM treatment in early life provides lifelong benefits in mice. A single reset versus lifetime resetting The team chose a group of heterozygous progeric mice as a mouse model. These mice suffer from a single mutation

Respiratory tract infection

Human Trials of mTOR Inhibitors for Immune Aging

A new study published in The Lancet shows the results of Phase 2a and Phase 3 clinical trials for the effectiveness of mTOR inhibition to bolster the aging immune system against respiratory illnesses. Immunosenescence increases disease risk As we grow older, our immune systems become increasingly

The Hallmarks of aging are the nine proposed reasons we age.

Move Beyond the Hallmarks, Urges New Paper

The hallmarks of aging, as presented in a 2013 paper [1], have been useful but do not provide a genuine explanatory paradigm, argue David Gems of University College London and João Pedro de Magalhães of the University of Liverpool in a pre-print paper [2]. They propose

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Elevant’s Leaders Introduce Elevant Prime

Elevant launched its first product, Prime, in January 2021. Prime is a daily NMN supplement featuring a unique form of cGMP-manufactured NMN called NMN-C. Guillaume Bermond is a French entrepreneur and founder of Elevant, an American health and wellness brand that develops cellular health solutions with

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Deep Longevity Partners With LifeHub & LifeClinic

Today, we have a bit more positive news with the announcement that Deep Longevity has added LifeHub and LifeClinic to its network of longevity-focused companies. This company plans to use multiple AI-based biological aging clocks to test a variety of longevity interventions, including supplements, drugs, and