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Science, Volume 385, Issue 6716, September 2024.

Science, Volume 385, Issue 6716, September 2024.

Science, Volume 385, Issue 6716, September 2024.

Science, Volume 385, Issue 6716, September 2024.

Science, Volume 385, Issue 6716, September 2024.

Subtle analysis of cosmological data probes novel concept of dark matter

Experiments suggest bowers amplify males’ songs and tweak their frequencies to woo females attending their show

Big cats that formerly lived in roadside zoos show surprising diversity—but may not be able to help wild populations

MicroRNA plays a crucial role in post-transcriptional gene regulation and has recently emerged as a factor linked to aging, but the underlying regulatory mechanisms remain incompletely understood. In this study, we observed lifespan-extending effects in miR-80-deficient Caenorhabditis elegans at 20°C but not 25°C. At 20°C, miR-80 deletion leads to NLP-45 upregulation, which positively correlates to increased abu transcripts and extended lifespan. Supportively, we identified miR-80 binding...

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), also known as fibro-adipogenic progenitors, play a critical role in muscle maintenance and sarcopenia development. Although analogous MSCs are present in various tissues, recent single-cell RNA-seq studies have revealed the inter-tissue heterogeneity of MSCs. However, the functional significance of MSC heterogeneity and its role in aging remain unclear. Here, we investigated the properties of MSCs and their age-related changes in seven mouse tissues through...

Mitochondria are crucial organelles in maintaining cellular homeostasis. They are involved in processes such as energy production, metabolism of lipids and glucose, and cell death regulation. Mitochondrial dysfunction can lead to various health issues such as aging, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and chronic liver diseases. While mitophagy is the main process for getting rid of excess or damaged mitochondria, there are additional mechanisms for preserving mitochondrial quality. One such...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...