Up in age, but young at heart! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Aging is about how well your body and mind hold up over time. How do we measure that? Enter Matías Fuentealba and team at the Buck Institute. They developed a blood test that
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Declutter … your brain?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our brains have tiny blood vessels that help drain out cellular waste. So do clogged brain vessels mean weaker learning and memory? Kyungdeok Kim and team at Washington University went down the brain drain. After blocking
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Feeling older and… what’s the other word? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Alzheimer’s disease happens when sticky plaques accumulate in the aging brain, damaging and killing neurons. And women are more likely to experience it. Why? Enter Madeline Wood Alexander and team from Sunnybrook
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What if YOU’RE the problem? Dun dun dun! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Normally, our immune system fights infections – and we love that – BUT one of its molecules actually makes Alzheimer’s worse. What to do? Enter Shirin Schneeberger and team. They looked
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Remember being… A BABY?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science wondering… What memories remain from infancy? Enter Tristan Yates and team from Yale. To find out, they used functional MRI, a noninvasive imaging tool, on babies! The babies looked at pictures once and then a
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For a longer life, cut the cheese? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… ask mice! Andrea Di Francesco and team at Calico and Jackson Labs did just that. They followed nearly a thousand mice on different diets. Some fasted, some cut calories, and some ate
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