Today we explore how scientists are trying to find a way to make an “aging clock” that can determine your age and health by looking at your DNA, how looking at our gut could help us treat mental health disorders, and how there may be a new treatment option in the form of a vaccine for people suffering from brain tumors!  

Aging Clock  

• “Aging clocks aim to predict how long you’ll live” by INfotech Group
  • https://infotechgroup.co.uk/blog/aging-clocks-aim-to-predict-how-long-youll-live/
• “Want to know when you’re going to die?” By Karen Weintraub
  • https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/19/139463/want-to-know-when-youre-going-to-die/

Mental Health in Your Gut 

• “Gut Microbes May Lead to Therapies for Mental Illness” By UT Southwestern
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/gut-microbes-mental-health-21385/
• “Is there a link between gut health and anxiety?” by Rosie Slater
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/gut-health-and-anxiety#link

Brain Tumor Vaccine  

• “Vaccine doubles brain tumour survival rate in medical breakthrough” by Sarah Knapton (PAYWALL)
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/17/vaccine-doubles-brain-tumour-survival-rate-medical-breakthrough/
• “Vaccine shown to prolong life of patients with aggressive brain cancer” by Denis Campbell
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/17/vaccine-shown-to-prolong-life-patients-aggressive-brain-cancer-trial-glioblastoma
• “Association of Autologous Tumor Lysate-Loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccination With Extension of Survival Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Glioblastoma” by Linda M. Liau et al.
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2798847
• “About Glioblastoma” by National Brain Tumor Society
  • https://braintumor.org/events/glioblastoma-awareness-day/about-glioblastoma/#:~:text=Glioblastoma%20Facts%20%26%20Figures&text=More%20than%2013%2C000%20Americans%20are,succumb%20to%20glioblastoma%20every%20year.

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