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Top Story Jun 8, 2023

The IL-17 Protein Plays a Key Role in Skin Aging

A team of scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) in collaboration with the National Center for Genomic Analysis (CNAG) has discovered that IL-17 protein plays a central role in skin ageing. The study, which was led by Dr. Guiomar Solanas, Dr. Salvador Aznar Beni […]

Top Story Jun 8, 2023

Taurine: Key to Longer and Healthier Life

A deficiency of taurine — a nutrient produced in the body and found in many foods — is a driver of aging in animals, according to a new study led by Columbia researchers and involving dozens of aging researchers around the world. The same study also found that taurine supplements can […]

Top Story Jun 8, 2023

Ensuring a Better Diagnosis of Hereditary Diseases

Researchers at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, have now contributed to solving this problem for a specific gene called GCK. Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen, Professor at the Department of Biology, explains:– “The GCK gene, which codes for the enzyme glucokinase, regulates the […]

Top Story Jun 8, 2023

Ultra-Processed Foods May Play a Part in Feeling Anxious

Although ultra-processed foods are convenient, low cost, quick to prepare or ready-to-eat, these industrial formulations of processed food substances contain little or no whole food. They result from extensive ‘physical, biological, and chemical processes’ that create food products th […]

Top Story Jun 7, 2023

Gene Engineered Cell Therapy Developed to Target Brain Metastatic Melanomas

Acting as a team, twin stem cells activate the immune system to suppress tumor growth and prolong survival in representative preclinical models. Overall survival for patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain is only four to six months. Immunotherapies, which harness the power of the imm […]

Top Story Jun 7, 2023

DNA Damage Repaired by Antioxidant Enzymes

A typical human cell is metabolically active, roaring with chemical reactions that convert nutrients into energy and useful products that sustain life. These reactions also create reactive oxygen species, dangerous by-products like hydrogen peroxide which damage the building blocks of DNA in the […]