Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis

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Blocking the 15-PGDH protein via injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis in aging and injured mice, with potential for human therapy.

Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. - The New York Times
Chronic inflammation underlies many age-related diseases; GLP-1 drugs reduce inflammation but also risk infection, while real-time monitoring may soon personalize treatment.
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What happens when you clone mice for 20 years straight?
Serial cloning of mice for 58 generations accumulated mutations and chromosomal abnormalities, causing efficiency to drop to near zero, yet surviving clones had normal lifespans.
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The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
Vaccine development has progressed from serendipitous discoveries to a systematic, atomic-precision science, enabling the design of new vaccines in weeks rather than centuries.
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