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Muscle-Specific Upregulation of Timeless Mediates Exercise-Induced Amelioration of Age-Related Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Cardiac Dysfunction in Drosophila
The core genes of the circadian pathway, such as Timeless(Tim), not only participate in the regulation of biological rhythms, but also play significant roles in DNA damage repair, chronic inflammation, and cellular metabolism. However, it remains unclear whether exercise can delay the age-related phenotypic degeneration by regulating the muscle Tim gene. In here, we first carried out the expression regulation of the muscle Tim gene in the Drosophila by constructing the Mhc-gal4/Tim-UAS system,...
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How countries can grow without impoverishing future generations
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A data leak shut a top research biobank: lessons from the recovery
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Limit bets on clinical-trial outcomes being placed on prediction markets
Sideline vested interests to reform China’s research
Nepal disaster is a wake-up call to take compound climate risks seriously
Put patients at the centre of medical AI governance
Author Correction: Contrasting roles of histone 3 lysine 27 demethylases in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Two children died from gene therapies in China: where the field goes next
China’s fast-track clinical trials are in the spotlight after child deaths
Adaptive oncogenesis of β-catenin emerges from declining liver tissue integrity
Mutations are fundamental to oncogenesis, yet they cannot fully explain cancer progression, as oncogenic mutations frequently accumulate in healthy tissues without immediate malignancy. In the liver, β-catenin mutations are highly prevalent in hepatocellular carcinoma but are widely considered weak or cooperative drivers, raising the question of how their oncogenic potential is contextually regulated. Aging and chronic injury are major determinants of cancer risk. However, how declining tissue...
Strengthening muscle for healthy ageing: innovative treatments for sarcopenia
Millions of people worldwide suffer from sarcopenia, a clinically recognized syndrome that is defined as the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength. Sarcopenia reduces mobility, leads to falls and fractures, and increases the risk of death, posing an ever-increasing health-care and economic burden to society. There are currently no approved therapies for the syndrome, partly owing to its multifactorial aetiology, highlighting the need for therapies with pleiotropic beneficial...
Integration of proteomic aging clocks in a phase 2a clinical trial supports simultaneous geroprotective assessment
Drugs for aging-related diseases may modulate aging itself, but standard clinical trial designs cannot detect such effects. Aging clocks could close this gap, but epigenetic models often yield inconsistent, hard-to-interpret results. In contrast, proteomic clocks, by tracking the immediate effectors of biological change, may excel in providing aging biomarkers or mechanistic insight. Here we compare six proteomic clocks (ProtAge, OrganAge(mortality), OrganAge(chrono), PAC, ipfP3GPT and PAOPAC)...
Aging rises, yet the double burden of illness remains
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Author Correction: Destabilizing heterochromatin by APOE mediates senescence
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Rethinking Apathy and Gait: Clinical Implications for Dementia and Integrated Care
There is increasing recognition that a broader array of biological changes may contribute to the clinical expression of cognitive decline. As such, an emerging and often overlooked consideration in dementia is apathy, gait dysfunction, motoric-cognitive risk syndrome, and their interplay. Broadly, apathy, gait dysfunction, and motoric-cognitive risk may reflect changes across multiple physiological and neural systems acting as clinical markers bridging normal aging and overt dementia, thereby...
Twenty-year persistence of SARS-CoV-1 immune imprinting shapes antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection
Antibody imprinting is well recognized, yet its long-term dynamics and epitope specificity remain poorly understood. Here, we studied individuals sequentially infected with SARS-CoV-1 (SARS-1) and SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-2) over two decades and found durable imprinting of antibody responses following SARS-2 BF.7 breakthrough infection. Approximately 60% of isolated monoclonal antibodies were SARS-1 imprinted and targeted conserved receptor-binding domain regions, whereas 37% overcame imprinting to...