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Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen root) is an important staple of traditional Chinese medicine that has long been used to treat a variety of illnesses including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Strong research evidence such as that cited here indicates … Continue reading
Soon this blog will celebrate its third birthday. So I pause here to discuss where it has been and is going. I also issue a new invitation for applicants who may be interested in becoming associate researchers/writers for the blog. … Continue reading
I published an introduction to the remarkable “anti-aging gene” Klotho in the October 2009 blog entryKlotho anti-aging gene in the news, and a September 2010 update Klotho, phosphates, cola drinks and longevity. Since then in little more than a year, … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano There is current excitement about a new approach to using a person’s own immune system to fight and defeat otherwise incurable cancers: Adoptive immunotherapy, a technology that is currently the subject of multiple clinical trials. Here, I … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano The press has recently picked up heavily on work by Mayo Clinic researchers related to reversal of cell-senescence in-vivo via inhibition of expression of the protein p16(Ink4a). The research has been heralded by such headlines as Cell … Continue reading
Previously I have written about the roles of glia and microglia in Alzheimer’s disease and in spinal cord injury. This blog entry reports on recent research which documents the importance of glial pathology as a general underlying factor in essentially … Continue reading
This blog entry unifies three themes that have repeatedly been expressed in this blog: 1. The possibility of extending lives via using “rebooted” cells, that is induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), 2. the key role of epigenetic factors in determining … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano The last few months have seen the continuation of an extraordinary pace of research related to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a technology stream that has been widely heralded as key for organ regeneration, for regenerative medicine, … Continue reading
There is a substantial amount current research on cat’s claw (uncaria tomentosa, in Spanish Uña de Gato), a herb imported from the Peruvian Amazon. This blog entry documents some of the properties of this remarkable substance and a number of … Continue reading
By Vince Giuliano Mainline scientific theories may have long lifespans but are inevitably overturned as accumulating evidence renders them obsolete and brings alternative theories to the fore. We saw this in physics over 100 years ago when relativity theory and … Continue reading
