This series is based on our reporting on TCM: its history, treatments and growing acceptance around the world. This is the sixth instalment. In Hong Kong, as in so many Chinese and Asian cities, shops selling traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) remedies are easy to find. Their shelves and drawers are filled with hundreds of different … Read more
The androgen clock is rewriting the science of aging, offering a precise way to measure hormone exposure and its profound effects on health, longevity, and biology. Study: The androgen clock is an epigenetic predictor of long-term male hormone exposure. Image Credit: ivector / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy … Read more
Immunotherapy is a modern approach to cancer treatment that uses a patient’s own immune system to help fight tumors. It has made an incredible impact on treating cancers in many different organ systems, including the lung, kidney, and bladder-but for other cancers, such as liver cancer, the therapy has been much less effective. This discrepancy … Read more
New research reveals the gut microbiota’s surprising role in aging and highlights promising therapies to counteract its effects on cellular health. Study: Gut microbial-derived phenylacetylglutamine accelerates host cellular senescence. Image Credit: Tatiana Shepeleva / Shutterstock A recent study published in the journal Nature Aging investigated the role of gut microbiota-derived phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln) in driving cellular senescence and … Read more
A Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center researcher is exploring new ways to improve treatment options for kidney cancer patients. With funding from a Department of Defense (DOD) Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators Early Career Scholar Award, Aguirre de Cubas, Ph.D., will investigate how the immune system can be boosted to detect and kill … Read more