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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by Ageing and Longevity | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
We have all heard of the benefits of intermittent fasting and longevity. In this review, Longo and colleagues discuss the latest cellular and organismal literature involving intermittent and periodic fasting, and their effect on ageing. Intermittent fasting is defined...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
As most will know, senescent cells lead to a plethora of ageing-related pathophysiologies. In this recent study, Chambers et al. describe how cutaneous senescent fibroblasts are responsible for the non-specific immune response to injection of varicella zoster virus...
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by Ageing and Longevity | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
In this elegant study, Li and colleagues show how the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) can promote longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Using a focused RNAi screen, the authors discover that CREB-binding protein 1 (CBP-1) is a crucial mediator of the...
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