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California program promises serious attention to an “underdog” area of research

First-of-its-kind observation suggests red harvester ants may look to smaller ants to pick off parasites

Global Fund and U.S. government plan to make injectable lenacapavir available to 3 million people by 2028

Some organisms exhibit a remarkable ability to adapt their life history strategies within a single lifespan in response to dynamic biotic and abiotic cues, such as Caenorhabditis elegans larval facultative diapause. However, the molecular basis of how conspecific and prey cues are processed to conditionally alter the time to reproductive maturation remains largely unexplored. Here we discover that the longest transcript of the forkhead transcription factor FKH-7/FOXP is expressed and acts in C....

In populations of many animal species, including humans, mortality rates increase exponentially with advancing age. The scale and rate of increase can be set by two parameters, α and β, respectively, of the Gompertz equation. Interventions that extend lifespan can reduce either or both parameters. A long-standing supposition is that β corresponds to biological ageing rate, and α to ageing-independent causes of mortality. Here, we investigate the biological basis of α and β using the nematode...

The retina provides a unique window into systemic health, yet molecular mechanisms linking retinal features (oculomics) to clinical traits in aging remain unclear. In this study, we leveraged the homogeneous Canton 70 s Alumni Cohort (N = 258 females aged ~70 years) to minimize socio-demographic confounders and extracted oculomic features from fundus images using AutoMorph. Linear mixed-effects models identified 129 significant associations between oculomic and clinical features (p < 0.05)....

Caloric restriction (CR) extends lifespan across diverse organisms, but the effects of CR on human aging and on healthspan are only beginning to be uncovered. In this study, we applied proteomics to plasma samples collected longitudinally from participants achieving, on average, 14% CR over 2 years as part of the CALERIE trial. We identified that inhibition of the complement pathway is linked to lower inflammaging. In humans, the C3a/C3 ratio was significantly lowered by CR, thus reducing...

Aging is the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet the role of age-associated DNA methylation (DNAm) changes in blood and their relevance to AD remains poorly understood. We performed a meta-analysis of blood DNAm samples from 475 dementia-free subjects aged over 65 years across two independent cohorts, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) at Exam 9 and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). We adjusted for sex and immune cell-type proportions and corrected batch...