Scientists are always working against the clock, and recently, a team led by Wolfgang Wagner (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) used their ever-evaporating time to explore a potential link between telomere shortening and epigenetic clock acceleration in premature-aging associated bone marrow failure syndromes and describe a new disease biomarker! Patients with premature aging and difficult-to-diagnose bone […]
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Common DNA Methylation Aging Profiles Convert Dog to Human Years Better Than Ever
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but it turns out you can use new epigenomic tricks to tell you how old a dog is. The heuristic that to get a dogs age in human years, you multiply by seven is a little simplistic, and due for an update using epigenomic insights. […]
Early-Life BPA Exposure Accelerates Epigenetic Aging and Creates a Ticking Timebomb for Metabolic Disease that a Western Diet Ignites
While we hope that any silly errors and childish pranks of our formative years don´t follow us into adulthood, it now seems that certain experiences during early development are indeed carried into adulthood without our knowledge, where an activating trigger can lead to trouble and strife! Specifically, exposure to any number of environmental stressors during […]
Disrupted LADs Drive Epigenetic Alterations in Human Early-onset Aging
The “driver” represents a crucial part of a successful Formula One team, a decent score at golf, and even a well-planned bank heist (!), and working out those factors that drive the onset of various diseases and disorders may provide critical mechanistic insight and even aid the development of novel therapeutic approaches. In the early-onset […]
A Rewired Metabolism Links the Aging Epigenome to Vision Loss
They say hindsight is 20/20, but for those of us looking over at a lifetime of memories, things might seem a little blurrier through our aging eyes. That’s because, unlike the fine wines, delectable whiskies, and smelly cheeses that we love to catabolize, the human epigenome tends not to age very well and a wide […]