Can getting rid of senescent cells in the brain reduce memory loss?
A special guest blog from Alejandro Lopez-Ramirez, Lab Manager in the Ellerby lab and Lauren Wimer, Dominican University of California graduate student in the Kapahi lab.
Feast or famine, but maybe not both. New data suggest that drosophila switching from #caloricrestriction to a calorie-rich diet had shorter average lifespan than those who ate a high calorie diet the whole time. #livebetterlonger https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uos-nrc022020.php
You can choose your diet, but can your cardiomyocytes? In mice, switching them back to glucose (like during development) might improve their regenerative capacity and prevent #heartfailure. #livebetterlonger https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/usmc-cwh022120.php
We know about exercising to help your brain, but what about the reverse? A new study from Berkeley found that glial cells (neuronal support cells) send long-lasting signals to support muscle cells and increase lifespan in C. elegans #livebetterlonger https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uoc--bcp022120.php
Not only is the microbiome important for #immune regulation, but there are distinct niches with cell-type specific activation. Lots of great new insights from the @humancellatlas and @sangerinstitute #livebetterlonger https://zcu.io/tqO1
Today in sentences you never thought you’d read: IBM (along w/ UCSD) can use your poop to estimate your age. But it’s actually pretty cool! Turns out there are lots of age-predictive changes to the #microbiome #livebetterlonger https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200211134432.htm
