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24 AUG 2026 · 6 STORIES · ABOUT 2 MINS

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Today’s lead

A major Alzheimer’s risk gene may shrink brain cells years before symptoms

Researchers have uncovered a possible reason why the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 can disrupt the brain long before memory problems begin. In mice, APOE4 increased a protein called Nell2, shrinking neurons and making memory circuits unusually active.

ScienceDaily Aging · 16:15

№02 / 6 · News-Medical

A striking immune cell pattern emerges around a person’s 100th birthday

Single-cell immune profiling found that CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes become more abundant around age 100, showing stepwise differentiation and substantial clonal expansion.

News-Medical · 03:57

№03 / 6 · ScienceDaily Aging

This common vitamin was linked to 13% better cognitive scores

Older adults with mild cognitive impairment and sleep problems who took at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily scored more than 13% higher on a cognitive test than those taking none.

ScienceDaily Aging · 05:31

№04 / 6 · ScienceDaily Aging

This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age

Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging. Researchers found healthy eye tissue and active proteins specially adapted for seeing blue light in the dim Arctic depths.

ScienceDaily Aging · 04:14

№05 / 6 · Aging Cell

Network Model to Predict Age‐Related Transcriptional Reprogramming

This study presents a network-based model to predict intracellular responses to shifts in the extracellular environment and demonstrates the utility of the framework by estimating chondrocyte responses to age-associated extracellular changes.

Aging Cell · 14:59

№06 / 6 · Fight Aging!

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 24th 2026

Reprogramming of Corticospinal Neurons Improves Recovery of Function in Mice Following Stroke Reviewing the Aging of the Gut Microbiome and Interventions Known to Improve Its Composition Mechanisms by Which Air Pollution Contributes to Parkinson's Disease RANKL Inhibition Slows Aging in Progeroid Mice

Fight Aging! · 12:30

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