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Pathobiology of Aging & Age-related Diseases: a new open-access journal by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health From the mailbag, news of a new aging-related peer-reviewed journal, currently in its first issue: Pathobiology of Aging & Age-related Diseases . I haven’t had to check it ... Read on »

Conference: RoSyBA – Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Ageing... by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health From the mailbag: You are kindly invited to the Baltic Sea, for the *RoSyBA: Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Ageing Research* 15th-1 ... Read on »

Conference: SENS5 – Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (June 15 registration... by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health From the mailbag: I am writing to inform you that June 15th is the deadline for discounted registration and abstract submission for the fifth Strategies for Eng ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting: Session IV by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health (^ Index) (<– Previous session) Talks in this session: Sagi: Engineering a long-lived worm Suchanek: “The germline and somatic reproductive tissues i ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting: Session III by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health (^ Index) (<– Previous session) Talks in this session: Choy: Intracellular trafficking and processing of amyloid precursor protein Kown: Age-associat ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting: Session II by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health (^ Index) (<– Previous session) Talks in this session: McGee: Loss of intestinal nuclei with age in C.elegans Mookerjee: UCP proteostasis and implica ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting: Session I by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Victoria Rafalski (Stanford; Brunet lab) — Sirt1 in adult neural stem cells Cognitive decline occurs with age: speed of processing, working memory, and long-term memor ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Today I’ll be live-blogging the Bay Area Aging Meeting being held at Stanford. Each session will have its own article; this entry will serve as a central hub for all ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Meeting, December 4th 2010 by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Earlier this year, the biogerontologists of the San Francisco Bay Area held the first of a series of biannual research meetings, the Bay Area Aging Club . More or less rig ... Read on »

Glaxo suspends resveratrol clinical trial by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health After a great deal of early promise, resveratrol has been on the ropes for a while, most prominently as a result of studies questioning whether it can directly activate si ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Club – Panel discussion: Free radical theory of aging by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health ( previous session ) At the end of the meeting, Martin Brand and Stuart Kim led a group discussion about the free radical theory of aging . Martin began the discussion ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Club – Session III: Calorie restriction; protein aggregation by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health ( previous session ) Craig Skinner (Lin Lab, UC Davis): Identification of potential calorie restriction mimics in yeast using a nitric oxide-based screen. Yeast are an ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Club – Session II: Sirtuins; telomeres by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health ( previous session ) Matt Hirschey (Verdin Lab, UCSF-Gladstone): Lack of SIRT3 results in the metabolic syndrome. SIRT3 is a mitochondrial sirtuin (NAD+-dependent deac ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Club – Session I: Model organisms & model systems by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Subhash Katewa (Kapahi lab, Buck Institute) talked about the metabolic adaptations that occur in flies whose lifespan is being extended by dietary restriction (DR). Katewa ... Read on »

Bay Area Aging Club by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Today I’m attending the first Bay Area Aging Club at UCSF’s Gladstone Institute . BAAC is a meeting of local scientists working in biogerontology and related fields, along ... Read on »

How patterns of gene coexpression change during aging by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Two recent computational studies show that expression relationships between genes change with age – for example, some genes have expression levels that are highly correlat ... Read on »

Scientific evidence for health supplements: an interactive, generative data visualization by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health An overwhelming number of natural products and nutraceuticals vie for our attention. Each is associated with a variety of claims of health benefits, often without any refe ... Read on »

Nature Insight: Ageing by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Nature’s most recent “Insight” supplement is devoted to a topic near and dear to our hearts, even when spelled with that superfluous UK “e”: Ageing . From the introductory ... Read on »

Conference: “Workshop on Bioinformatics in Ageing Research” May 4-5, Germany by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health The Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging in Rostock, Germany is hosting a Workshop on Bioinformatics in Ageing Research on May 4th and 5th of ... Read on »

Orally available rapamycin: Don’t forget to take your pill by Dr. Chris P. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health This isn’t exactly news, but it’s news to me: Rapamycin has an orally administered derivative, Everolimus , already in use as an anti-cancer and anti-rejection drug. (The ... Read on »

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