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Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity
Science, Volume 390, Issue 6776, Page 918-924, November 2025.
Programmable higher-order nonequilibrium topological phases on a superconducting quantum processor
Science, Volume 390, Issue 6776, Page 930-934, November 2025.
Monkeys have rhythm
Science, Volume 390, Issue 6776, Page 940-944, November 2025.
Whither the world’s winds
Science, Volume 390, Issue 6776, Page 888-888, November 2025.
A human history of machines
Science, Volume 390, Issue 6776, Page 887-887, November 2025.
‘Superarm’ helps male octopuses deliver sperm to females
Specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing males to find sex organs in the dark
Russia’s plan for ‘colossal’ science spending boost faces skepticism
Government pledges to more than triple research spending by 2030
Insulin resistance as a mediator of physical activity's effects on beta-amyloid accumulation and tau phosphorylation: A scoping review
CONCLUSION: Exercise can simultaneously impact insulin resistance and Alzheimer's disease pathology in animal models. Results from human research are limited, and no robust evaluation of the potential mediating role of insulin resistance in the physical activity - Aβ or tau relationship exists. Future research should focus on identifying the mediating pathways that may link physical activity to biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.
Pharmacologic inhibition of PCBP2 biomolecular condensates relieves Alzheimer's disease
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less assemblies formed by phase separation, are implicated in neurodegenerative disease, but their role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unclear. Here, we report that in the brain of AD patients and animal models, an elevation of poly(C)-binding protein 2 (PCBP2) correlates with biomolecular condensation that involves phase separation. These condensates sequester large numbers of mitochondrial and mRNA-binding proteins, leading to the outside impairment of...
Integrating axis quantitative trait loci looks beyond cell types and offers insights into brain-related traits
Genome-wide association studies have identified many loci for brain disorders, but most non-coding variants fail to colocalize with bulk expression quantitative trait loci. Single-cell expression quantitative trait loci studies capture cell-type-specific regulation but are often underpowered. We developed Bulk And Single cell expression quantitative trait loci Integration across Cell states (BASIC) to combine bulk and single-cell expression quantitative trait loci through "axis-quantitative...
Organ-specific proteomic aging clocks predict disease and longevity across diverse populations
Aging and age-related diseases share convergent pathways at the proteome level. Here, using plasma proteomics and machine learning, we developed organismal and ten organ-specific aging clocks in the UK Biobank (n = 43,616) and validated their high accuracy in cohorts from China (n = 3,977) and the USA (n = 800; cross-cohort r = 0.98 and 0.93). Accelerated organ aging predicted disease onset, progression and mortality beyond clinical and genetic risk factors, with brain aging being most strongly...
A metabolic atlas of mouse aging
Humans are living longer and experiencing more age-related diseases, many of which involve metabolic dysregulation, but how metabolism changes in multiple organs during aging is not known. Answering this could reveal new mechanisms of aging and therapeutics. Here, we profile metabolic changes in 12 organs in male and female mice at 5 different ages. We also develop organ-specific metabolic aging clocks that identify metabolic drivers of aging, including alpha-ketoglutarate, previously shown to...
The past, present, and future of adipose tissue browning and aging: A review combined with bibliometrics and bioinformatics of 2527 documents published over the past four decades
Aging is one of the factors for the decline in adipose tissue browning and, consequently, age-related metabolic disorders. Metabolic disorders will in turn accelerate aging and lead to a vicious circle. Therefore, the research on the reduced browning of adipose tissue that occurs with aging, that is, adipose tissue browning aging, is necessary and of great significance for the development of metabolically healthy aging. In this study, we performed a bibliometric analysis of 2527 published...
Reevaluating principal component analysis in geroscience: A call for nonlinear approaches in AI-based evaluations
Fuellen et al. (2025) highlighted the essential role of explainable AI methods, particularly principal component analysis (PCA), in evaluating interventions for aging and longevity. However, this paper raises significant concerns regarding PCA's linear and parametric nature, which can misrepresent complex, nonlinear data common in geroscience research. As biological relationships often defy simplistic interpretations, reliance on PCA may obscure vital insights, leading to potential...
The interplay between the immune microenvironment and bone aging: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic interventions
The core mechanism of skeletal aging lies in the comprehensive disruption of microenvironmental homeostasis, involving a multidimensional interactive network comprising immune cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and their differentiated lineages. Although osteoporosis (OP) and osteoarthritis (OA) have traditionally been viewed as distinct degenerative disorders, recent breakthroughs in osteoimmunology reveal their shared immune-aging mechanism: immune cell dysfunction within the bone marrow...
Inhibition of MCL-1 to eliminate senescent cells and mitigate renal fibrosis in aristolochic acid nephropathy
The role of tubular epithelial cells (TEC) senescence in the progression from acute kidney injury (AKI) to chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains debated due to the complexity of senescent cell populations and their pro-survival mechanisms. To directly assess the contribution of TEC senescence to AKI-to-CKD progression, we employed an aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) mouse model. Here, we demonstrated that AAI-induced DNA damage specifically drives TEC senescence during AKI-to-CKD progression....
Ultra-slow aging dynamics of glass and its application to geological dating
The ultra-slow relaxation dynamics of glasses at ambient temperature provide a promising alternative for dating glasses with extremely low isotopic content that cannot be dated using traditional radiometric methods. However, these ultra-slow, nonlinear aging dynamics remain poorly understood due to the lack of accurate theoretical models and long-term experimental validation. Existing equilibrium-based dynamics models substantially overestimate relaxation times at temperatures far below the...
Mechanism by which 24-week different-volume high-intensity interval training ameliorates renal fibrosis in naturally aging rats via regulating the TGF-beta1/Smad pathway
CONCLUSION: 24-week HIIT intervention can effectively delay the decline of renal function and the progression of renal fibrosis in naturally aging rats. Its protective effect may be associated with inhibiting the overactivation of the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway. High-volume HIIT (H1) induced a more profound suppression of the pro-fibrotic pathway, whereas low-volume HIIT (H2) represents a time-efficient strategy conferring notable protection at the phenotypic level.
Plasma Alzheimer's biomarkers and physical functions in aging adults with and without motoric cognitive risk syndrome
CONCLUSION: Plasma biomarkers may reflect stage-specific mobility changes in aging populations. Their integration with performance-based tests may support early identification of functional decline and guide timely interventions.
A biomimetic senotherapy replenishing MAT2A promotes wound regeneration in preclinical models
Timely infiltration and effective turnover of macrophages after trauma are essential for wound regeneration. In pathological conditions, such as diabetic wounds, how disturbances in cellular collaboration leads to persistent inflammatory infiltration remains unclear. Herein, we identify that the expression of methionine adenosyltransferase 2 A (MAT2A), which is downregulated in pericytes, is negatively correlated with inflammatory macrophage infiltration in diabetic wounds. Cspg4-CreER^(T2)/+;...