Standard gene models leave out short open reading frames, so a Salk team built a search database that includes them and pointed it at existing proteomics data from postmortem frontal cortex samples.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives30
- Confidence60
MIT pairs Raman spectra with single-cell sequencing on the same cells to barcode senescence
The MIT group measured skin and lung cells from 2-month-old and 26-month-old mice both ways at once, using the destructive sequencing read to label the optical one. Human tissue, the authors say, is next.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives58
- Confidence62
Mouse ovaries keep about 14 percent of their eggs activated at every age
Across a full mouse reproductive lifespan, the share of eggs that had begun growing stayed flat. The Barcelona group takes that as a sign the ovary tracks its own supply, and says it does not yet know the signal.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives52
- Confidence58
Yale pins part of calorie restriction's benefit on one protein, and it comes from fat, not liver
A 42-person plasma screen found C3 falling on an 11 to 14 percent calorie cut, and mice supply the causal half. The harms that justify drugging it came from a much deeper diet.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
A subcutaneous myocyte graft gave mice muscle, bone and immune gains. The mice were also free to roam their cages, which is the one condition the intended patients do not share.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives55
- Confidence66
One sleuth, 54 more papers, and an antibody that was never going to work
A UK molecular biologist says dozens of cell-ageing studies used an antibody against a bacterial protein to detect a mammalian one. It is his third reagent flag in about three months.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives58
- Confidence58