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Thirteen proteins in your blood could reveal the age of your brain
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence model to gauge people’s ages from their brain scans laboratory/Alamy The abundance of…
Human body’s ageing ‘clock’ ticks faster after heat stress
Nature, Published online: 09 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04007-8 Preliminary study suggests possible link between long-term heat exposure and molecular…
Ageing of stem cells reduces their capacity to form tumours
Nature, Published online: 04 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03721-7 The discovery that the ageing of lung stem cells drives iron…
Ageing limits stemness and tumorigenesis by reprogramming iron homeostasis
Oh, J., Lee, Y. D. & Wagers, A. J. Stem cell aging: mechanisms, regulators and therapeutic opportunities. Nat.…
Why breast cancer treatments might work best just after your period
Download the Nature Podcast 4 December 2024 In this episode: 00:48 Chemotherapy efficacy varies with the menstrual cycle…
What is ageing? Even the field’s researchers can’t agree
When ageing begins is one of many questions researchers cannot agree on.Credit: mrPliskin/iStock via Getty Researchers studying ageing…
Most comprehensive picture yet of how organs age at different rates
Someone’s kidneys could be a decade older, biologically, than their brain Christian Kitzmuller/Alamy Our organs appear to age…
Adult skull bone marrow is an expanding and resilient haematopoietic reservoir
Animal models C57BL/6J mice were used for all experiments involving wild-type mice and pharmacological treatments. Mice at the…
Bone marrow in the skull plays a surprisingly important role in ageing
Download the Nature Podcast 13 November 2024 In this episode: 00:46 The role of skull bone marrow in…
Cat brains age like ours — and could help scientists to understand cognitive decline
Old cats’ brains show some of the changes seen in the brains of ageing humans.Credit: Getty To unlock…