aging
3 posts in this topic
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Your Genes Shape How Long You Live — Far More Than We Thought
A landmark study in Science overturns decades of consensus: when you filter out deaths from accidents and infections, the heritability of human lifespan climbs above 50%. That changes everything about how we should study aging.
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How a Pig Virus Accidentally Solved One of Alzheimer's Biggest Puzzles
Scientists at Altos Labs discovered that a protein from African Swine Fever Virus — evolved to hijack pig cells — is a remarkably potent inhibitor of the molecular pathway that silences memory in Alzheimer's, Down syndrome, and aging. And it enhances memory even in healthy mice.
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The 'Death Protein' That Forgets to Kill
A protein famous for blowing up cells is doing something far stranger in your blood stem cells: slowly sabotaging their mitochondria without ever pulling the trigger on cell death — and it may be the hidden engine of blood aging.