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More News! 19 Sep 2017

Scottish Scientists Claim that the Genome Controls the Aging of the Brain

Scientists in Scotland claim gene expression in the brain is so precisely controlled that they could predict your age just by looking at your genome. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh believe that genes in the brain are expressed at very specific times during a person’s life to carry out particular functions. Changes were seen […]

September 19, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

More News! 11 Sep 2017

Could a Protein in Yeast hold the Secret to Escaping Age-Related Diseases?

Researchers in Basel, Switzerland have identified a protein in yeast that slows protein synthesis, prolonging their lifespan. Gcn4 is a transcription factor that regulates the expression around 10% of the yeast genome. Nutrient restriction and moderate stress extend lifespan and under these conditions, yeast expresses Gcn4 to regulate protein synthesis. The aim is now to find […]

September 11, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

Interview 25 May 2017

How Biotech Will Make Us Live Longer – Let’s Talk Anti-Aging

Last week, at our first Labiotech Hangout, Philip had a chat with James Peyer, a partner at Apollo Ventures, to ask a few questions about how biotech is tackling the anti-aging space. For a long time, the anti-aging field has not seen much innovation, both due to a lack of scientific know-how as well as a lack of […]

May 25, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

Interview 18 May 2017

#Live# Labiotech Hangout: Join our first webcast on anti-aging therapies!

As we grow as a company, our content is growing too! Hang out with us and anti-aging VC managing partner, James Peyer, online next week. Join Now! We can’t wait for an event to produce videos for our readers, and we realized we don’t have to! Next week, we’re trying out a new feature and bringing additional […]

May 18, 2017 - 1 minutemin - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 30 Mar 2017

New Clues on How the Immune System Weakens with Age

By analyzing the responses of individual immune cells, a new study in Science provides new insights into the decline of the immune system with age. In a collaborative effort, researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Cancer Research UK–Cambridge Institute (CRUK-CI) have shed light on a […]

March 30, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

News and Trends 24 Mar 2017

Novartis puts the Development of two Anti-Aging Drugs in American Hands

PureTech will take on the development of two mTORC1 inhibitors from Novartis aimed at stopping the decline of the immune system associated with age. Novartis is building up the portfolio of PureTech, a Boston-based healthcare company listed on the London stock market. Originally an investment firm, it now has put together a drug pipeline from […]

March 24, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Dec 2016

What Does ‘Anti-Aging Treatment’ Mean in Biotech?

Beyond filling in wrinkles with cosmetics, how do you solve a problem like aging? Here’s how biotech is sinking its teeth into the challenge. “Aging is… broadly [defined] as the time-dependent functional decline that affects most living organisms.” Maria Blasco, Hallmarks of Aging. Can we treat aging directly with medicine? “For the past decade, pharma and […]

December 20, 2016 - 5 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 18 Jul 2016

Switzerland discovers Pomegranate ‘Anti-Ageing’ Effect and founds Biotech

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have uncovered a molecule in the pomegranate fruit which can prolong the lifespan of animal models. The co-authors who published in Nature went to co-found a biotech Amazentis to develop the wonder molecule into clinical trials. There are many underlying factors to what happens to our bodies as we age. However, […]

July 18, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 12 May 2016

Oxford Spin-Out Raises Record €21M to Re-Program Stem Cells

OxStem’s strategy for stem cells therapy inside the body could have a big impact in regenerative medicine – and it has raised €21.4M, a record for a UK spin-out. A spin-out of Oxford University, OxStem is developing cell programming therapies that could treat a range of usually age-related conditions – dementia, heart failure, macular degeneration, […]

May 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 25 Apr 2016

AstraZeneca partners up with Genomics Elite for new Biobank

AstraZeneca has announced it will create a new Centre for Genomics Research in Cambridge (UK) – joining the Wellcome Sanger, a Craig Venter Biotech and a Finnish specialist Institute to do so. AstraZeneca is betting on genomics to transform drug discovery and support its R&D pipeline. The idea is to create a ‘biobank‘ with genome analysis, integrated with data from […]

April 25, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 4 Jan 2016

Genomics’ Holy Grail: The Secret to Super-Longevity Lies in your Genes

The search for the Holy Grail in aging has long been a focus in regenerative medicine, which poses the question: why do some of us age better than others? Now growing evidence in Genomic Studies shows that there are key genetic players in the Aging game… Ever since the Human Genome Project, which began 25 […]

January 4, 2016 - 4 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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