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Researchers from Osaka University show that activation of a protein called MondoA can protect against age-related diseases and cellular changes associated with aging. A step toward discovering the fountain of youth could involve protecting against the inevitable accumulation of “senescent” cells associated with aging and age-related diseases. Now, researchers from […]

One of the important areas of cancer research and development that appears to receive a great deal of attention and funding, but in practice seems slow to make it from the laboratory to the clinic, is the targeting of therapeutics to cancerous cells. Reductio ad absurdum, near any of dozens […]

Today's open access review discusses the growing burden of cellular senescence with age in the context of brain tissue and neurodegenerative disease. Cells become senescent constantly throughout life, largely the result of ordinary somatic cells hitting the Hayflick limit on replication, but also, and increasingly with age, due to a […]

University of Saskatchewan (USask) psychology graduate student Shaylyn Kress may have identified what kids have wanted their parents to think all along – that playing video games regularly might count as homework. Data shows the activity may contribute to improving one’s peripheral attention skills that are essential for reading ability.  […]

For the first time, researchers demonstrate an artificial organic neuron, a nerve cell, that can be integrated with a living plant and an artificial organic synapse. Both the neuron and the synapse are made from printed organic electrochemical transistors. On connecting to the carnivorous Venus flytrap, the electrical pulses from […]