The University of Sydney Principal Investigator: Ziyu WangResearch Team: Anthony Weiss (Co-PI), Dr. Suzanne Mithieux, Kekini Kuppan Our large arteries are exquisitely engineered with concentric layers of elastic mesh comprised of the protein elastin that give them life-sustaining mechanical properties. First, the elastin web protects our brains and kidneys by cushioning the rhythmic hydraulic pounding of …
Stanford University Principal Investigator: Annelise E. BarronResearch Team: Kristian Sørensen, Jennifer Lin, Josefine Eilsø Nielsen, and John Fortkort The aging brain is vulnerable to invasion by infectious microbes, and there is compelling evidence that some of these pathogens drive neurodegenerative aging of the Alzheimer’s type (AD). One of the ways these microbes promote the disease …
German Institute of Human Nutrition Principal Investigator: Tilman GruneResearch Team: Annett Braune, Annika Höhn, Tim Baldesperger Prof. Grune is the Scientific Director of the German Institute of Human Nutrition and has been working on protein degradation of damaged proteins and aging. Lipofuscin (LF) is a strongly oxidized material composed of covalently cross-linked proteins, lipids, and …
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Principal Investigator: Andrei GudkovResearch Team: Marina Antoch, Amy Stablewski, Nick Neznanov, Lilya Novototskaya, Olga Leontieva Nearly half of the mammalian genome is long and short interspersed virus-like repetitive elements (LINEs and SINEs), which spread through the process of retrotransposition. Numerous intracellular mechanisms exist to silence these elements, but unfortunately these …
Albert Einstein College of Medicine Principal Investigator: Jean HébertResearch Team: Hiroko Nobuta, Joanna Krzyspiak, Alexandra Quezada, Marta Gronska-Peski, Jayleecia Smith Of all the challenges in cell therapy, replacement of neurons in the neocortex is both the most important (the brain being the seat of consciousness and identity) and perhaps the most formidable. Only recently have any …
This research program has successfully spun-out into a company! Visit the Revel Pharmaceuticals website for more information on their transformative approach to tissue cross-linking and vascular disease. Yale University Principal Investigator: David SpiegelResearch Team: Prof. Jason Crawford, Nam Kim, Venkata Sabbasani, Matthew Streeter The long-lived collagen proteins that give structure to our arteries and other …
This project has recently concluded; further information will be published in the near future. Applied StemCell, Inc. Principal Investigator: Dr. Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai The CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has the ability to make precisely-targeted changes in the genetic sequence – a clear strength of the platform – but is limited in its lack of an …
This project has recently concluded; further information will be published in the near future. Buck Institute for Research on Aging Principal Investigator: Dr. Julie AndersenResearch Team: Cyrene Arputhasamy, Manish Chamoli, Anand Rane Aging brains accumulate aggregates composed of aberrant forms of the protein tau, both inside and outside of neurons. These aggregates are an important …
The Babraham Institute Principal Investigator: Jonathan ClarkResearch Team: Melanie Stammers As discussed in the project summary for “Glucosepane Crosslinks and Undoing Age-Related Tissue Damage”, adventitious crosslinking of collagen and elastin contributes to the slow stiffening of our arteries and other tissues with age. Some of these crosslinks occur as a result of spontaneous chemistry (as in …
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