At its most dramatic, oxidative stress can rend DNA in two and predispose cells to mutations that ultimately result in cancer. But the less bombastic ...
Research roundup: Tau tangles guilty by association, and more
It looks like those clumps of tau protein that form inside the neurons of Alzheimer’s brains may actually be protective, and the real damage mig...
Out with the old, in with the… old?
Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill had an interesting mission: first, transform scar tissue (like the kind that forms after heart attacks) into ordinary c...
Michael Fossel on telomerase therapy in cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more
Last week we heard the theoretical side of Dr. Michael Fossel’s mission to bring aging to its knees, and why his chosen point of attack was on t...
Research roundup: The Hippo in your heart, and more
The Hippo pathway controls cellular regeneration, so why not modify it to heal the heart after the scarring caused by a heart attack? Six weeks later,...
In the media: Telomeres, translation, and treatment
“All of this time I had been thinking about telomere maintenance in terms of the minuscule cellular molecular structures that they are, and the ...