Director NCI-designated Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program at SBP, Co-Editor-in-Chief Aging Biology Journal, Road/Gravel/Mtn Cycling, Wolf Pack Cycling.
Explore the latest research from the NIH SenNet consortium, working to identify and characterize senescent cells across the human body, lifespan, and states of health and disease. @sennetresearch
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Congratulations Nate Basisty and @sennetresearch coauthors. I’m excited to see CCND1 in the top 20 unregulated genes in senescence. See here if interested in this apparent paradox biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Revised and improved MS coming soon.
Just back from the @sennetresearch Consortium meeting in Washington DC. There’s so much great research ongoing! These papers are the tip of the iceberg. Keep watching. Both @CellCellPress and @Nature family journals will have a package of papers.
Identifying an inflection point for Alzheimer's disease from the brains of 80 and 100 year old individuals. Microglia transition is key; initially it is protective vs inflammatory changes triggered by amyloid.
But microglia can turn destructive linked to tau. Resilience in older age, via two divergent pathways, prevents that transition. @NatureMedicinenature.com/articles/s41591-0…
@LocasaleLab Jason - I think the excitement over RAS inhibitors is that they are just the beginning. Similar to BRAF inhibitors and checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma 10-20 years ago. Surely melanoma is now in a much better place through these multiple incremental advances?
Another major advance vs cancer! @ASCO#ASCO26
Personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccine 5 year follow-up vs metastatic melanoma reduced recurrence and death by 49% (on top of Keytruda)
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As someone who works primarily on aging and cancer, I take your points about lifestyle, prevention, early detection etc…. But I still think the ability to finally inhibit RAS is an achievement and only the beginning of something with lasting impact.
📅 Save the date – October 22
Join us in Nice for the Workshop “Senescence & Immune Surveillance: Implications in Cancer and Aging”
🎓 Free participation – international speakers – lunch & networking!
#Senescence#Cancer#Aging#Immunology@ircaninstitute
Would be nice to have some functional measures to go with the clock data, but even so - seems like an exciting human study. Nice to see it coming from San Diego @UCSDHealth@MolinaLab1 Michael Corley and colleagues
An FDA-Approved Tenofovir Alafenamide-Based Antiretroviral Therapy Reduces Biological Age in Healthy Adults: First Human Proof-of-Concept for Retrotransposon-Targeted Gerotherapeutics
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This seems similar to @skhosla78 senolytic trial - potential benefits most marked in those with high baseline markers. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3895… Patient stratification is important.
Congratulations @FarzadNegin@RongFan8 and coworkers! Leaders within @sennetresearch. This is a comprehensive documentation of senotypes in the lymph node, important to discern “good” and “bad” senotypes.
Human Lymph Node Cellular Senescence Atlas Reveals Age-Dependent Alteration in Germinal Center B Cell Function and Niches
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This is an excellent conceptualisation of epigenetics of aging. Takes a complicated topic and distills it down. Good to see histone H3.3 featured. For our latest contribution on histone H3.3 and aging see here biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…@NatureAging
This review is one of the most important syntheses in years. It doesn’t just catalog things. It proposes a unifying framework. ie. aging is a breakdown of epigenetic fidelity, the ability of cells to maintain correct gene expression over time...
🚨 #BSRA2026 is LIVE! Registration now open for our 75th Annual Meeting
📍 Oxford (Keble College)
Great science, great people, and some special 75th year surprises 👀
Tag someone who should be there!
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I'm excited to be speaking at the Keystone Symposium on Inflammation Resolution in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Looking forward to great discussions! Register & submit abstracts here: keysym.us/KSInflammation26@KeystoneSymp#KSInflammation26