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New drug target in humans activates brown fat to burn excess energy

August 30, 2020

“Scientists have shown how to activate energy-burning brown fat in mice, which helps shed weight and improves health. Results have been hard to replicate in humans, but a new study has found that we might be targeting the wrong receptor […]

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World-first gene therapy reverses Alzheimer’s memory loss in mice

August 16, 2020

“Scientists in Australia have made an exciting breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research, demonstrating what they describe as the first gene-therapy-based approach for treating advanced forms of the disease.” | learn more

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How a promising anti-aging field turned into a battleground. 

November 18, 2018

“In 2013, David Sinclair, a geneticist at Harvard, published a high-profile paper showing that aging mice became more youthful when they were dosed with a NAD-enhancing compound.” Now there are two high-profile well-financed direct-to-consumer companies selling supplements that increase NAD. […]

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