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David Meyer

@meyerdh.bsky.social
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Dr. rer. nat. | Bioinformatician 🧬 | Exploring Aging & Longevity with Machine Learning 🔍 | Unraveling Life's Code | C.elegans | Consultant

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Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research @cga-age.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
🏆 Congratulations to our CGA alumni members Aishwarya Acharya @aishacharya.bsky.social and David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social on receiving the Klaus Liebrecht Award 2026 from the University of Cologne for their outstanding doctoral theses! 🎉 We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved success! 👏🧬
Image shows the awardees of the Klaus Liebrecht Award 2026, among them Aishwarya Atul Acharya and David Meyer from the Class of 2018 of the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research.
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FOR5762 @ru5762proteostasis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨Thrilled to share this exciting new paper by our #FOR5762 project leader @bjornschumacher.bsky.social, published in #NatureAging! The study uncovers neuron-specific aging patterns and points to potential neuroprotective interventions. Congratulations! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions - Nature Aging
Gallrein et al. pair functional assays with clocks to compare chronological versus biological age of single neuron types in C. elegans, to probe their vulnerability or resilience to neurodegeneration,...
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FOR5762 @ru5762proteostasis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨Excited to share this new review in @febsj.bsky.social by our #FOR5762 project leader @thevilchezlab.bsky.social! The article explores how organelle #proteostasis preserves cellular function, and how its decline contributes to #aging and disease. febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cells rely on regulated proteostasis mechanisms to keep their internal compartments functioning properly. When these mechanisms fail, damaged proteins accumulate, disrupting organelles, such as the n...
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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🧠⏰our latest paper is out now: how each neuron ages differently allowed us to define in silico screens for new therapeutic molecules that could prevent neurodegeneration @cecad.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social @meyerdh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions - Nature Aging
Gallrein et al. pair functional assays with clocks to compare chronological versus biological age of single neuron types in C. elegans, to probe their vulnerability or resilience to neurodegeneration,...
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CRC1678 @crc1678.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨Publication Alert🚨 New work from our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social reveals why some neurons age faster. Using neuron‑specific aging clocks, they identified vulnerable neurons and highlight syringic acid and vanoxerine as promising neuroprotective hits.🧬
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
And the stochastic clock: www.nature.com/articles/s43... (n/n)
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Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation - Nature Aging
Meyer and Schumacher use simulations to show that accumulation of stochastic variation is sufficient to build clocks that can measure both chronological and biological age, sensitive to changes induce...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Links to BitAge: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (10/n)
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BiT age: A transcriptome‐based aging clock near the theoretical limit of accuracy
Using Caenorhabditis elegans RNA seq and lifespan datasets we developed a binarized transcriptomic aging (BiT age) clock with a precision close to the theoretical limit of accuracy that can also be a...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Big thanks to @bjornschumacher.bsky.social for his guidance and all co-authors. This was a great team effort. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... (9/n) #aging
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Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions - Nature Aging
Gallrein et al. pair functional assays with clocks to compare chronological versus biological age of single neuron types in C. elegans, to probe their vulnerability or resilience to neurodegeneration,...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Amazingly, these in silico predictions held up in vivo: protective hits delayed degeneration (syringic acid, vanoxerine), while predicted pro-aging/toxic compounds caused neurite deterioration and accelerated degeneration (resveratrol, Bay K8644). (8/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We used this discovery to adapt an in silico drug screen and mapped worm neuron-aging signatures onto human perturbation profiles (CMAP) to identify novel compounds affecting neurodegeneration. (7/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
These trajectories aren't worm specific. Despite millions of years of evolution, the same transcriptomic signature we see in C. elegans aligns with human brain aging, and it flips sign under geroprotective interventions. That argues for conserved neuronal aging programs. (6/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fast-aging neurons are enriched for neuropeptide and protein biosynthesis pathways. These neuron types show earlier structural decline and loss of neuron-specific function. And indeed, pharmacological inhibition of translation prevents degeneration of fast-aging neurons. (5/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Critically: fast-aging types show earlier structural degeneration and loss of function in vivo. Remarkably, we can already predict which neurons will degenerate earlier at a late developmental stage. Vulnerability is detectable as an early transcriptomic aging state. (4/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
We applied two independent clocks (links below): our BitAge (binarized transcriptomic aging clock), and our Stochastic clock (noise-based and data-type agnostic). Both independently rank neuron types as fast- vs slow-aging from their transcriptomes. (3/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Selective vulnerability is central to #Alzheimer’s and #Parkinson’s disease, but which neurons age faster is rarely quantified. Transcriptomic clocks let us estimate biological age directly from neuron-type gene-expression states. (2/n)
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Why do some neuron types degenerate early while others stay intact? We used transcriptomic aging clocks for single-neuron-types in C. elegans and found neuron-specific biological age predicts vulnerability. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Neurodegeneration 🧵👇 (1/n)
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Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions - Nature Aging
Gallrein et al. pair functional assays with clocks to compare chronological versus biological age of single neuron types in C. elegans, to probe their vulnerability or resilience to neurodegeneration,...
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Aging Science News @agingbiology.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
A sex-adjusted 7-biomarker clinical aging clock for translational preventative medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A sex-adjusted 7-biomarker clinical aging clock for translational preventative medicine - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A sex-adjusted 7-biomarker clinical aging clock for translational preventative medicine
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Melike Dönertaş @mdonertas.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Happy to share that this is now out in Microbial Ecology 🥳 Huge thanks to the whole team, especially @sultanova.bsky.social 🙌 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @leibnizfli.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
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Age-Dependent Gut Microbiota Dynamics and Their Association with Male Life-History Traits in Drosophila melanogaster - Microbial Ecology
Growing evidence suggests that the gut microbiota is closely intertwined with life-history evolution in a wide range of species, including well-studied model organisms like Drosophila melanogaster. Al...
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
1/6 In a new preprint we ask a question: Why do males and females so often age and die at different rates? We argue that sex-specific mutation accumulation may be the most parsimonious evolutionary explanation for sex-biased ageing: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks to the whole team (not on Bluesky)!
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The clock predicts an accelerated age up to 5 years before a chronic disease is diagnosed. And it stays robust during acute infections, but correlates with CRP.
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We built a clinical #aging clock using only 6 routine blood biomarkers + sex on a Southeast Asian dataset that validates well in NHANES and UK Biobank.
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Happy to share our recent publication, which grew out of a consulting job I did last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
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CRC1678 @crc1678.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
New study by our #CRC1678 members @bjornschumacher.bsky.social, @meyerdh.bsky.social and Walter Sandt showing that C. elegans dauer stage decelerates aging and even reverses biological age upon exit, revealing natural gene patterns of rejuvenation. Congratulations! 🎉 #AgingResearch #Longevity
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28/10/2025
🎥 Meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates: ⭐ David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award ⭐ Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social Early Career Award ⭐ scverse @scverse.bsky.social, Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold Watch their award ceremony talks👇& congrats to all!
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Celebrating excellence: meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates
Two early career bioinformaticians have been recognized for their mathematical and AI models, along with a collaborative resource for single-cell data analyses. The three 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Award...
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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚀 🚀 🚀 Our latest paper is out now: Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause. We can learn from nature how aging of a whole organism with completely differentiated tissues can be slowed and how that organism can be completely rejuvenated. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Age Deceleration and Reversal Gene Patterns in Dauer Diapause
The dauer diapause is a naturally occurring extraordinarily long-lived alternative C. elegans larval stage that, upon dauer exit, lives a normal adult life with full reproductive capacity. Here, we d...
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527
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yifanzhao.bsky.social @yifanzhao.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Super grateful that our scETM work (from my summer internship with Dr. Yue Li, in collab. with Huiyu Cai and @tangjian.bsky.social) was recognized with an honourable mention at SIB PhD Paper Award competition. Many thanks to the jury and congrats to @meyerdh.bsky.social and Can Chen! #bc2basel
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A fantastic few days of ageing talks, great people, and excellent food! Massive thanks to (Hanna!) @kokkonut.bsky.social, Margaux Bieuville, Victor Ronget, and the fantastic people at The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ribonucleotide incorporation into mitochondrial DNA drives inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to the Langer lab @mpiage.bsky.social, Amir, and the rest of the team!
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Ribonucleotide incorporation into mitochondrial DNA drives inflammation - Nature
Imbalanced nucleotide metabolism leads to age- and mtDNA-dependent inflammatory responses and senescence-associated secretory phenotype in senescence.
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Andreas Beyer Group @beyerlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This review of our @crc1678.bsky.social member @bjornschumacher.bsky.social and @meyerdh.bsky.social is greatly summarizing fundamentals of the molecular biology of aging. What causes aging? Read the answer!
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Björn Schumacher @bjornschumacher.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🔥🔥🔥Out now: our Perspectives article in @nataging.nature.com outlining how aging is driven by molecular damage leading to increasing molecular noise whose quantification could track aging with the precision of a clock @meyerdh.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Aging by the clock and yet without a program - Nature Aging
Meyer and colleagues refute the idea that, as aging can be tracked precisely by clocks, it must be driven by a biological program. They propose that imperfect maintenance and repair processes resultin...
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We argue that selection shadow - gradual decline in the force of selection after the onset of reproduction - is sufficient/parsimonious to explain why damage accumulates with age. 'Aging clocks' measure damage accumulation, they neither require nor support any kind of 'program'-based explanation.
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CRC1678 @crc1678.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
👵🏻⏰👴🏻 Is aging a programmed process? Check out this perspective article in Nature Aging by our two #CRC1678 members @meyerdh.bsky.social and @bjornschumacher.bsky.social. Congratulations! 🥳
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You can also read it here rdcu.be/eG1N7 👇
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I am grateful to the reviewers Alan Cohen, Vera Gorbunova, and Steven Cummings for insightful comments that made this piece much clearer. 🙏
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Aging is the default state of biological systems. Changing markers picked up by aging clocks won’t roll back time, they only mark it. The way forward is strengthening repair & maintenance and embracing biology’s messy and stochastic reality. ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s43... 6/
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Aging by the clock and yet without a program - Nature Aging
Meyer and colleagues refute the idea that, as aging can be tracked precisely by clocks, it must be driven by a biological program. They propose that imperfect maintenance and repair processes resultin...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We previously showed that stochastic variation alone can create aging clocks predicting age across species & interventions. Because repair & maintenance can never be perfect, small errors inevitably build up, giving rise to aging. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Entropy #DNARepair 5/
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Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation - Nature Aging
Meyer and Schumacher use simulations to show that accumulation of stochastic variation is sufficient to build clocks that can measure both chronological and biological age, sensitive to changes induce...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The accuracy of DNA methylation & other aging clocks has revived programmed and programmatic aging theories. But clocks don’t prove an intrinsic timer. They reflect the accumulation of molecular errors as repair systems are never perfect. #Longevity #Biology 4/
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The force of natural selection is strongest during development and wanes after reproduction. Maintenance & repair only need to be good enough for fitness, not perfect, therefore leaving room for gradual decline. #Evolution #DNArepair 3/
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Aging started with the very first replicators on earth facing a harsh entropic environment. Life could persist only by evolving repair and maintenance systems to counter damage. Aging and death is therefore the default state, happening because maintenance can never be perfect 2/
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🕰️ Is aging driven by a programmed/programmatic mechanism, or by the unavoidable burden of imperfect maintenance? Our perspective argues that aging reflects finite maintenance and reduced evolutionary pressure🧵🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s43... @bjornschumacher.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social
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Aging by the clock and yet without a program - Nature Aging
Meyer and colleagues refute the idea that, as aging can be tracked precisely by clocks, it must be driven by a biological program. They propose that imperfect maintenance and repair processes resultin...
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Thank you 🙏
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CRC1678 @crc1678.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
💪🎉Congratulations to our #CRC1678 member @meyerdh.bsky.social for winning the SIB Bioinformatics PhD Paper Award 2025 for his work on Ageing Clocks ⏰ 👵🏻👴🏻
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
✨ I’m honored and grateful to have received the SIB Bioinformatics PhD Paper Award 2025 for part of my PhD work. Thank you for your guidance and inspiration @bjornschumacher.bsky.social #SIBAwards #bc2basel #Bioinformatics
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 09/09/2025
Read David’s award winning article ‘Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation’. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #bc2basel
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Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation - Nature Aging
Meyer and Schumacher use simulations to show that accumulation of stochastic variation is sufficient to build clocks that can measure both chronological and biological age, sensitive to changes induce...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 09/09/2025
💫 The PhD Paper Award goes to @meyerdh.bsky.social from Uni-Köln 💫 “David Meyer’s paper ‘Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation’ presents a completely novel concept and a fresh way to address the problem”. #Bioinformatics #SIBawards #bc2basel
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David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Thank you for the shout-out!
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025
#bc2basel @SIB PhD Paper Award 👏 David Meyer: Aging clocks based on accumulating variation doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00619-x
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Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation - Nature Aging
Meyer and Schumacher use simulations to show that accumulation of stochastic variation is sufficient to build clocks that can measure both chronological and biological age, sensitive to changes induced by smoking, calorie restriction, parabiosis and reprogramming.
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David Vilchez @thevilchezlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 New from our lab: Here we explored how aging contributes to harmful protein aggregation in diseases like Huntington’s & ALS. The culprit? An overlooked aging factor — EPS8 and RAC signaling. #Aging #Longevity #Proteostasis #ALSResearch 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The aging factor EPS8 induces disease-related protein aggregation through RAC signaling hyperactivation - Nature Aging
Aging is a risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein aggregation. Here the authors identify age-related hyperactivation of EPS8/RAC signaling in C. elegans as a driver of path...
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