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Intravenous Stem Cells: Where Do They Go? What Do They Do? by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health We usually think of stem cell therapy in terms of replacing damaged cells or tissues with stem cells, which can differentiate and become the type of cell or tissue which is ... Read on »
Staggered Drug Therapies Hit Some Cancer Cells Harder by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health This treatment worked not only in cancer cells grown in a lab dish, but also in mice with tumors. When treated with a one-two punch of erlotinib and doxorubicin, the tumor ... Read on »
Mastering Cell Signaling: A Worthy Goal by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Cells make decisions in fluctuating environments using inherently noisy biochemical mechanisms. Such effects create considerable, unpredictable variation – known as ‘stoch ... Read on »
Stanford U. Researchers Fire Potent Shot Across the Bow of Solid Tumour Cancers by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The ... Read on »
Another Approach to Treating Alzheimer's In Early Stages by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health A study published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that the compound epothilone D (EpoD) is effective in preventing further neurological damage and improving ... Read on »
Progress on Two Important SENS Anti-Ageing Themes by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Aging Damage Discovery SENS Solution Cell loss, tissue atrophy 19551 ... Read on »
Unconventional Brain Modifications by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health A team of neuroscientists had discovered a genetic manipulation which provides a long term increase in brain neurogenesis in mice, and which appears to boost learning and re ... Read on »
New Experimental Drug Offers Hope for Early Stroke Treatment by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Number of deaths for leading causes of death Heart disease: 599,413 Cancer: 567,628 Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353 Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128, ... Read on »
Good News on the Alzheimer's Front by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health The number of Alzheimer’s victims worldwide is expected to double every 20 years... MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer ... Read on »
Tissue Repair Gel Scaffold: Hope for Healing Cardio-Infarction by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health UCSD scientists have developed an injectable gel to reinvigorate damaged heart tissue, after a heart attack. Heart failure subsequent to myocardial infarction is a ... Read on »
A Brain Zapping Method of Removing Unwanted Nerve Connections by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Scientists at the University of Western Australia have devised an intriguing method of removing unwanted neural connections in mice. Whether or not this procedure is direct ... Read on »
Precious Metals vs Cancer: Platinum, Gold, and Silver by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Platinum was the first precious metal to achieve recognition as an effective cancer therapy: The first platinum based chemotherapy drug discovered by researchers was cispla ... Read on »
Important New Insights into Alzheimer's Disease from Cultured Adult Induced Stem Cells from... by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health When you take skin cells from an Alzheimer's patient, and turn them into neurons in culture, you can study these "Alzheimer's neurons" in detail in the lab. This abi ... Read on »
3 Dimensional Bio-Cell Printing: Future Tissue & Organ Replacements by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health An optimized 3D inkjet printing process is demonstrated for structuring alginate into a tissue-like microvasculature capable of supporting physiological flow rates. Optimi ... Read on »
Living More of Your Time: Enjoying and Mastering Alcohol by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health A person may "live" between 70 and 80 years, but only truly experience a relatively few years of life. After subtracting the time a person spends either sleeping, intoxicat ... Read on »
Young Stem Cells In Old Mice Increased Lifespan by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health A special breed of mice lived up to three times longer than normal after University of Pittsburgh researchers injected them with stem cells from younger, healthy mice, acc ... Read on »
A Lesson in Basic Gene Expression by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Directions for making proteins are encoded in the DNA sequences of genes, which reside on chromosomes in the nucleus of each cell. But for proteins to be made, a gene’s DN ... Read on »
Salk Researchers Take a Stab at New Approach to Alzheimer's Tx by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health At present, there are few drugs that improve the memory deficits associated with normal aging and none that prevent cognitive decline in chronic neurodegenerative conditio ... Read on »
Monoclonal Antibody Prophylactic Injection for Alzheimer's Disease by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health We are learning how to diagnose Alzheimer's disease before it has begun to manifest symptoms. Genomic studies tell us who is most likely to develop the disease, and new lab ... Read on »
Brain Restoration in Alzheimer's Disease: Deep Brain Stimulates Reversal of Brain Shrinkage by Al Fin .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health BRAIN shrinkage in people with Alzheimer's disease can be reversed in some cases - by jolting the degenerating tissue with electrical impulses. Moreover, doing so reduces ... Read on »