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Comparative analysis of senolytic drugs reveals mitochondrial determinants of efficacy and resistance

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Cellular senescence contributes to aging and disease, and senolytic drugs that selectively eliminate senescent cells hold therapeutic promise. Although over 20 candidates have been reported, their relative efficacies remain unclear. Here we systematically compared 21 senolytic agents using a senolytic specificity index, identifying the Bcl-2 inhibitor ABT263 and the BET inhibitor ARV825 as most effective senolytics across fibroblast and epithelial senescence models. However, even upon extended...
Masahiro Wakita

Pantropical moist forests are converging towards a middle leaf longevity

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Leaf longevity is a fundamental plant trait that largely explains ecosystem functional dynamics in global pantropical moist forests. However, the signs, magnitudes, and mechanisms of the spatiotemporal variations in leaf longevity with ongoing climate change are still lacking. Using both ground measurements and gridded leaf age-dependent leaf area index data, we map the continental-scale variability of annual mean leaf longevity across pantropical moist forests over 2001-2023. We find a...
Meimei Xue

Social connections are differentially related to subjective age and physiological age acceleration amongst older adults

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Human social connections are complex ecosystems formed of structural, functional and quality components. Weak social connections are associated with adverse age-related health outcomes, but we know little about the ageing-related processes underlying this. Using data from 7047 adults aged 50+ in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we explore associations between diverse aspects of social connections and both older subjective age and accelerated physiological age using a validated...
Daisy Fancourt

Advancing depression assessment in older adults with cancer: Development and validation of the Older Adults with Cancer-Depression Scale (OAC-D), a novel, patient-reported outcome

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CONCLUSIONS: The OAC-D identified five unique domains of depression, only one of which overlapped with DSM criteria. It demonstrated robust psychometric properties, providing a nuanced alternative to DSM-based measures and addressing the distinctive psychological challenges of cancer and aging.
Christian J Nelson

Associations Between 40-Year Trajectories of BMI and Proteomic and Epigenetic Aging Clocks: Deciphering Nonlinearity and Interactions

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The potential of proteomic aging clocks for obesity research, and the extent of nonlinearity in longitudinal associations between body weight and biological aging, remain underexplored. We investigated how BMI at ages 18 and ~60, as well as changes in BMI from age 18 to ~60, relate to downstream epigenetic and proteomic aging. We also examined nonlinearity and interactions in these associations. Analyses were conducted in 401 Finnish twins with up to nine self-reported or measured BMI values...
Gabin Drouard

The origin of hepatocellular carcinoma depends on metabolic zonation

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Science, Volume 391, Issue 6784, January 2026.
Jason Guo, Roger Liang, Andrew Chung, Zhijie Li, Boyuan Li, Eric Chen, Lin Li, Jingjing Wang, Meng-Hsiung Hsieh, Ivy Xiangyi Fang, Benjamin Kroger, Yunguan Wang, Min Zhu, Xiongzhao Ren, Greg Mannino, Yuemeng Jia, Yonglong Wei, Stephen Moore, Daniel J…

Wafer-scale ultrathin and uniform van der Waals ferroelectric oxide

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Science, Volume 391, Issue 6784, January 2026.
Qinci Wu, Zhongrui Li, Bingchen Han, Weiyu Sun, Qinyun Liu, Chengyuan Xue, Hyeonhu Bae, Mengdi Wang, Boyang Fu, Jun Qian, Yongchao Zhu, Yu Sun, Tingkai Feng, Xin Gao, Xuzhong Cong, Wanqing Liu, Yunan Gao, Binghai Yan, Congwei Tan, Hongtao Liu, Hailin Peng