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The potential of flavonoids to mitigate cellular senescence in cardiovascular disease

5 months 2 weeks ago
Aging is one of the most significant factors affecting cardiovascular health, with cellular senescence being a central hallmark. Senescent cells (SCs) secrete a specific set of signaling molecules known as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The SASP has a remarkable impact on age-associated diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Targeting SCs through anti-aging therapies represents a novel strategy to effectively retard senescence and attenuate disease...
Huimin Zheng

miR-96-5p expression is sufficient to induce and maintain the senescent cell fate in the absence of stress

5 months 2 weeks ago
Senescence is a cell fate driven by different types of stress that results in exit from the cell cycle and expression of an inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Here, we demonstrate that stable overexpression of miR-96-5p was sufficient to induce cellular senescence in the absence of genotoxic stress, inducing expression of certain markers of early senescence including SASP factors while repressing markers of deep senescence including LINE-1 and type 1 interferons....
Fernando E Santiago

The revolution in high-throughput proteomics and AI

5 months 2 weeks ago
The recent capability to measure thousands of plasma proteins from a tiny blood sample has provided a new dimension of expansive data that can advance our understanding of human health. For example, the company SomaLogic has developed the means to measure more than 10,000 proteins and Thermo Fisher's Olink assays over 5400 proteins from as little as 2 μl. When these rich data are integrated with other layers of information from large patient cohorts, such as the UK Biobank's genetic, health, and...
Eric J Topol

Modeling the progression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease with PET-based Braak staging

5 months 2 weeks ago
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) correlate with tau deposition in the brain. Here, we investigated the association of PET-based Braak stages with NPS and assessed whether they predict annual changes in NPS. We evaluated 231 individuals in the aging and AD continuum. Participants were assigned a Braak stage at baseline and followed for 1.97 (s.d. 0.62) years. NPS were investigated using the Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist (MBI-C) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory...
Arthur C Macedo

Recovering single-cell expression profiles from spatial transcriptomics with scResolve

5 months 2 weeks ago
Many popular spatial transcriptomics techniques lack single-cell resolution. Instead, these methods measure the collective gene expression for each location from a mixture of cells, potentially containing multiple cell types. Here, we developed scResolve, a method for recovering single-cell expression profiles from spatial transcriptomics measurements at multi-cellular resolution. scResolve accurately restores expression profiles of individual cells at their locations, which is unattainable with...
Hao Chen

Aging impaired locomotor and biochemical activities in Drosophila melanogaster Oregon R (fruit fly) model

5 months 2 weeks ago
Despite advancements in healthcare and increased lifespan, aging populations face numerous challenges, including declining cognitive function, increased susceptibility to chronic diseases, and reduced quality of life. This study investigated Aging impaired Locomotors and Biochemical Activities in Drosophila melanogaster Oregon R (Fruit Fly) Model with the aim to elucidate the mechanism involved. Adult wild-type Drosophila melanogaster Oregon R was used for this study. Survival assay, antioxidant...
Abdullateef Onoruoiza Yusuf

Structural features within the NORAD long noncoding RNA underlie efficient repression of Pumilio activity

5 months 2 weeks ago
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly appreciated for their important functions in mammalian cells. However, how their functional capacities are encoded in their sequences and manifested in their structures remains largely unknown. Some lncRNAs bind to and modulate the availability of RNA-binding proteins, but the structural principles that underlie this mode of regulation are unknown. The NORAD lncRNA is a known decoy for Pumilio proteins, which modulate the translation and stability...
Svetlana Farberov

The effects of APOEe4 allele on cerebral structure, function, and related interactions with cognition in young adults

5 months 2 weeks ago
In the last decade, extensive research has emerged into understanding the impact of risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease (AD) on brain in pre-symptomatic stages. We investigated the neuroimaging correlates of the APOEe4 genetic risk factor for AD in young adulthood, its relationship with cognition, and potential effects of other variables on the findings. While conventional volumetric analyses revealed no consistent differences, more sophisticated analyses identified subtle structural...
Ludmila Kucikova

Picture imperfect

5 months 2 weeks ago
Did a top NIH official, neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah, doctor influential Alzheimer's and Parkinson's studies for decades?
Charles Piller