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A kimchi-derived bacterium can bind to nanoplastics under gut-like conditions and may help carry them out of the body. In mice, the probiotic more than doubled the amount of nanoplastics detected in feces, pointing to a surprising potential use for microbes from fermented foods.

A natural compound produced by gut bacteria after digesting foods such as pomegranates, walnuts, and berries may help repair and protect the intestinal lining. The discovery reveals a surprising beneficial side of an inflammatory pathway and could inspire more targeted treatments for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls. Those pearl-like structures can change with neural activity and may help control how quickly electrical signals travel through the brain.

Frailty is a complex geriatric syndrome characterized by age-related declines in physiological function and cognitive reserve. To promote early prevention and intervention, minimally invasive and objective biomarkers that can detect frailty progression are required. We aimed to identify biomarkers associated with frailty progression and to elucidate their relevance to the Japanese version of the Cardiovascular Health Study (J-CHS) criteria, consist of five components (unintentional weight loss,...

Senescence is a key pathomechanism across chronic diseases but also highly heterogeneous. In this study, we demonstrate that high-content imaging and transcriptomics can jointly shed light on senescence in vitro, distinguishing replicative and chemically induced senescence, differentiating from quiescence and characterizing the senolytic response.

Age-related olfactory decline in humans is well-documented, yet the underlying peripheral neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We investigated age-related olfactory decline across psychophysical, nasal mucosal, and central neural levels in 73 healthy adults across the lifespan. Participants underwent Sniffin' Sticks testing and simultaneous recordings of mucosal electro-olfactograms (EOG) and cerebral chemosensory event-related potentials (CERP) in response to olfactory and trigeminal...

Aging bridges pose significant risks to public safety. Although existing sensing technologies offer a potential solution for structural health monitoring, the high cost and complexity of installing and maintaining sensing systems have limited their scalability and long-term deployment. Here, we present a scalable and cost-effective approach that turns pre-existing telecommunication (telecom) fiber-optic cables into a dense array of dynamic strain sensors to continuously monitor bridges. Using...

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CONCLUSIONS: Higher activity levels and higher day-to-day morning activity variance measured over just two to three mornings differentiate those at higher risk of death and frailty decline, increasing the feasibility of using accelerometry as a digital frailty screening tool.

Toward development of an autologous, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-based cell therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), we demonstrate successful, reproducible genomic and transcriptomic qualification of patient-derived dopaminergic neuron precursor cells (DANPCs) across multiple donors. Our analysis includes whole-genome sequencing data from fibroblasts, iPSCs, and DANPCs and the development of NeuriTest, an RNAseq-based bioinformatic analysis of DANPCs designed to predict cell quality based...

Interest in fasting-based diets to improve metabolic health is growing. Caloric restriction (CR) with one meal per day includes an extended fasting component that contributes to its metabolic and longevity benefits, yet the role of fasting within CR remains unclear. Here, we compare CR with a fasting-refeeding-fasting (FRF) regimen while controlling food intake and fasting duration. Changes in plasma insulin and free fatty acids, hepatic mTOR signaling and ketogenesis, metabolic rhythms, and...

Individuals of the same chronological age differ in biological aging, and scalable, noninvasive markers are needed. The deep learning-derived retinal age gap (RAG) is a promising measure of retinal aging, but its associations with real-world health determinants remain unclear. We developed a multi-task model to predict retinal age using 29,530 fundus images from 7535 participants in a health screening cohort and evaluated RAG in cohort A for lifestyle, socioeconomic, and systemic factors (n =...

Aging in mammals is characterized by widespread yet coordinated epigenetic alterations. However, integrative analyses of DNA methylation and gene expression in dogs remain largely unexplored, particularly within genetically homogeneous single-breed populations. To elucidate the molecular signatures of canine aging, we profiled the genome-wide methylome and transcriptome of clinically healthy beagle dogs representing three distinct age groups. Global methylation levels were highly conserved...

Pigeons (Columba livia) rely heavily on spatial cognition for navigation. As such, this species is commonly used to investigate the neural correlates of spatial behaviours in birds, particularly the hippocampus and septum. As this species can live for decades when housed in the laboratory, several studies have recently used pigeons to examine long-term effects of aging on the brain, a concept that is less well-understood in birds compared to mammals. Studies assessing age-related structural...

Over the past two decades, human aging has been characterized across DNA methylation, transcriptomic, proteomic, and clinical modalities, yet no benchmark evaluates whether AI systems can interpret these heterogeneous data types in the context of aging biology. We introduce LongevityBench, an open suite of 17 tasks spanning five biodata domains, and use it to assess 18 frontier AI systems from six developer teams. Despite recent advances in AI, no single model dominates all tasks, with...

CONCLUSIONS: Hearing loss was associated with adverse cognitive trajectory membership and modified the association between baseline cognitive function and moderate decline. The association with rapid decline was particularly consistent across sensitivity analyses. These findings support considering hearing status when assessing cognitive aging risk, while further studies should determine whether hearing interventions alter cognitive trajectories.

Skin ageing is a multidimensional process driven by the convergence of intrinsic biological changes and cumulative environmental stressors. These alterations progressively disrupt epidermal barrier integrity, compromise extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis, and establish a chronic low-grade inflammatory state that significantly impairs tissue repair. Consequently, aged skin represents a particularly vulnerable substrate for delayed or chronic wound healing, a condition that disproportionately...