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5 Reasons Your Teen May Be Going Gray Earlier Than Expected

A few gray strands on a fifteen-year-old can feel alarming, but premature graying in teenagers is almost never a sign of a serious underlying disease. In most cases, it traces back to one or two identifiable causes, each with a different path forward. Here is what the research and clinical…

Times Life · Oct 22

Mount Sinai Launches Lab-Grown Mini Hearts and Brains to the Space Station to Study Aging-Like Changes in Microgravity

Mount Sinai sent lab-grown heart and brain tissue models to the space station on SpaceX CRS-35 to study whether spaceflight speeds aging-like changes.

Medical Daily · Oct 15

Barcelona team develops AI that detects ageing in blood stem cells

ChromAgeNet has decoded chromatin architecture, the 3D organisation of DNA in the nucleus, distinguishing young from aged blood stem cells and opening new paths for cell rejuvenation.

Euronews · Oct 9

In 2000, Johns Hopkins team treated 18 paralyzed rodents with neural stem cells. 6 years later, the team engineered working motor-neuron circuits in paralyzed adult animals, extending the original finding

Johns Hopkins research from 2000 and 2006 represents an important scientific progression in the search for ways to repair damaged nervous systems. The original experiment involving 18 paralyzed rodents provided evidence that neural stem cells could migrate toward spinal-cord injury and coincide with functional improvement.

The Economic Times · Aug 28

Growing Human Organs Inside Pigs Remains Far Off, but Researchers Think Human Blood Could Come First

A new review of animal bioreactors argues that transfusable human blood cells grown in pigs are a nearer target than any transplantable human organ.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

A Mouse Cortex Grown in a Dish Made All the Right Cells, but Its Stem Cells Lost Their Timing and Their Range

Austrian researchers grew a mouse cerebral cortex in a dish. It made the right cells, but the stem cells abandoned the schedule that a real brain follows.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

Scientists just discovered a big limitation in lab-grown minibrains — they have a skewed 'sense of time'

Miniature models of the brain don't seem to follow the same developmental timetable as real brains, which matters for research.

LiveScience · Aug 19

Your Gut Cells Can "Forget" What They Are to Repair Damage, and Colon Tumors Steal the Same Switch

MSK researchers identified ZFP36L2 as the protein that lets gut cells revert to a stem-like state, a repair program that colorectal cancer exploits to spread.

Medical Daily · Aug 19

Researchers Are Printing Bone Cancer Cells into Gel Cubes to Study a Tumor That Ignores Chemotherapy and Radiation

Rowan researchers are 3D printing chondrosarcoma cells into a hydrogel to study how the tumor recruits stem cells. Flat cell culture cannot answer this.

Medical Daily · Aug 7

Stanford Finds the Aging Brain Is Not Sealed off from the Body, Overturning a Long-Held Assumption

Stanford researchers found blood-derived immune cells enter the aging human brain, challenging the idea that it is immunologically sealed. What it means.

Medical Daily · Aug 7