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August 25, 2025
Original story: Texas Public Radio By: Bonnie Petrie (August 24, 2025) — A recent review of two decades of research from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) highlighted 13 anti-aging medications that show promise in preclinical studies for significantly extending lifespan. More than that, they seem to improve the quality of those extra years. There’s […]
August 19, 2025
A new study from post-doctoral fellow Kevin Thyne, PhD, shows that methionine restriction, a dietary intervention known to extend lifespan, has different effects on mitochondria and signaling mechanisms that dependent on which tissues are tested, and which sex of mice are tested. Dr. Thyne is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Adam Salmon, PhD, […]
August 15, 2025
Highlights: This review explores ferroptosis, an iron-dependent, non-apoptotic form of programmed cell death, as a promising strategy for eliminating senescent cells, which accumulate with age and contribute to tissue dysfunction and age-related diseases such as fibrosis, atherosclerosis, osteoarthritis, and neurodegeneration. The molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis, including iron overload, lipid peroxidation, and oxidative damage, can be […]
August 14, 2025
Study Highlights Skeletal Muscle Changes During Disuse and Rehabilitation A recent study from the lab of Blake Rasmussen, PhD, and published in Physiological Reports examined how short-term skeletal muscle disuse and subsequent rehabilitation affect muscle function and gene expression in healthy middle-aged adults. Participants underwent seven days of unilateral lower-limb suspension followed by a two-week […]
July 29, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 28, 2025) — Study finds rapamycin shows greatest longevity effect in 20-year NIH Interventions Testing Program The first comprehensive review of two decades of research from the National Institute on Aging’s Interventions Testing Program highlights 13 interventions that show promise in preclinical […]
July 24, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (July 22, 2025) — Aging affects all living creatures and is the greatest factor in numerous diseases. The greatest health care burdens are borne by diseases in older patients — a population expected to nearly double by 2050, according to U.S. Census […]
July 22, 2025
Laurence Maeyens, a PhD student in Biology of Aging, won the Poster Pitch Award, along with a cash prize, at the 2025 American Aging Association meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. His winning poster, titled “Timing of castration modulates its life-extending effect in genetically heterogeneous mice: castration at midlife is more effective than at earlier ages”, highlights […]
June 24, 2025
CPRIT awards UT Health San Antonio $3.4 million to increase HPV vaccination rates in Bexar County, develop transformative technologies targeting drug-resistant cancers SAN ANTONIO (June 2, 2025) — The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) received $3,395,970 in new academic research and prevention awards as part of […]
June 17, 2025
Original story: Texas Public Radio By: Bonnie Petrie (June 15, 2025) — As we age, our immune systems age too. They can start sending off false alarms and attacking the body’s healthy cells, while becoming less responsive to actual threats. Ann Griffith, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular […]
June 5, 2025
Original story: UT Health San Antonio Newsroom Contact: Claire Kowalick, kowalick@uthscsa.edu SAN ANTONIO (June 5, 2025) — More than 600 teams from 58 countries around the world entered the XPRIZE Healthspan competition. That number has now been whittled down to 100 semifinalists and 40 top award-winning milestone teams, including a team at The University of […]
