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Blood Factor Involved With Aging And Weight Loss

Blood Factor Involved With Aging And Weight Loss

Aging has been shown to be delayed through lifestyle changes such as exercise and restricting calorie intake. As published in Aging Cell researchers have elucidated properties of a molecule in the blood whose mechanisms were previously unknown; in a mouse model it was shown that this molecule mimics benefits of certain calorie restrictions. Certain calorie …

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Top Companies Working To Extend Longevity

Can Scientists Find The Formula To Better Aging?

Around the globe there is a growing industry focused around human longevity, and they are working towards combating age related disease to extend human health and lifespan. Anti-aging, life extension, and regenerative medicine is still fairly new but has grown to be a trillion dollar industry with a complicated and fast evolving landscape, all hoping …

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Pursuing Disputed Approach To Aging Diseases: GDF11

Pursuing Disputed Approach To Aging Diseases: GDF11

Elevian the new startup has launched with $5.5 million in backing to develop drugs based on Harvard University discovered protein GDF11 which is linked to age related diseases, based on decades of research showing blood from younger mice administered to older animals helped to rejuvenate organs. Work on growth differentiation factor 11 involved parabiosis techniques …

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