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Aging

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Over the next 20 years, the U.S. population may grow by about 60 million. Half of the population will be over the age of 65. Growing pains take on new meaning as we near the end of our life cycle. The physical changes that come with aging are a natural...

A map of the aging brain

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HSCI researchers take a single-cell dive into how aging affects gene expression in the mouse brain By Jessica Lau HSCI researchers have created a highly detailed map of how the mouse brain changes with age. Using single-cell sequencing, the scientists...

Reversing aging in the eye

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Scientists develop a gene therapy to reverse age-related vision loss and glaucoma damage in mice Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists are part of a team that has successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock in aged eye cells in...

Aging and Metabolism

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Cell Symposia Submit an abstract by the April 8, 2016 deadline! For details and to register, visit the program website at: http://www.cell-symposia-aging-metabolism.com/

Aging & Fibrosis

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HSCI has the critical mass of expertise needed to tackle major questions that transcend individual disorders. Our scientists study fibrosis and aging in collaborations that cross traditional boundaries, as insights in these key areas have applications...

How insulin-producing cells show their age

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Adapted from a Joslin Diabetes Center press release Diabetes researchers have puzzled for decades about why insulin-producing beta cells in one pancreatic islet often look and behave quite differently than their counterparts in the same islet or in nearby...

HSCI scientists join collaboration to study the aging brain

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Researchers awarded funding by the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain Two HSCI scientists have joined the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain. Funded by the Simons Foundation, the effort has pledged $42 million over...

HUBweek event: Ageless Aging

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Part of the HUBweek series of events. A panel discussion around the latest in aging research, including work by scientists at HSCI on therapeutics that show potential to restore some youthful function in organs. This program is offered free of charge to...

Aging and GDF11: What we know

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The aging process has long baffled researchers because of the complexity of system-wide changes that take place as we move through the life cycle. Different parts of our bodies decline at different rates; changes can be slow and steady, or feel like a...

Junior faculty project investigates aging from multiple perspectives

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Benjamin Franklin once famously wrote that “...in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Franklin neglected to add another inescapable reality of life: aging. Like it or not, as we grow older our muscles weaken, our skin wrinkles, our wounds...

Age-related effects of MS may prove reversible

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HSCI scientists and collaborators at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have found that the age-related degeneration in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) may be reversible. The team, co-led by HSCI Executive Committee member Amy...

Age-related effects of MS may prove reversible

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Harvard stem cell researchers and scientists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have found that the age-related degeneration in conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) may be reversible. The researchers, co-led by Associate Professor...