{"id":8561,"date":"2026-10-12T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2026-10-12T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T17:45:01","slug":"new-anti-aging-drug-trial-for-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8561","title":{"rendered":"A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">A wave of<\/span> biotech companies is looking to prove that it\u2019s possible to slow down the aging process. Mountain View, California\u2013based Rubedo Life Sciences is starting with the most outwardly visible sign: the skin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The company\u2019s experimental treatment is showing early promise that it may be able to reduce the appearance of aging, according to data the company presented at the Aging Research and Drug Discovery meeting in Boston earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In a small clinical trial, Rubedo tested its topical cream on 11 people with atopic dermatitis, an inflammatory skin condition and the most common type of eczema. The drug targets a mechanism of cellular senescence, a biological state in which damaged or stressed cells permanently stop dividing but do not die. These senescent or \u201czombie\u201d cells accumulate as people age and can release substances that contribute to inflammation and tissue damage, which contributes to disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years, on average. That estimate was based on an aging \u201cclock\u201d designed by a different company, Mitra Bio, which performed an independent analysis on participants\u2019 skin samples. One person in the trial had a reduction of more than 11 years in skin age. Separately, Rubedo found that its treatment was tied to a reduction in inflammation-related markers and a 10 percent increase in a type of collagen associated with skin elasticity and structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Biological or epigenetic age is an estimate of how well a person is aging compared to their calendar age. Aging clocks like Mitra\u2019s attempt to calculate this number by looking at patterns of methylations, chemical modifications to DNA that regulate how genes function and can change over time. That metric doesn\u2019t necessarily prove that the body or a particular organ or tissue has become functionally younger, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cOur idea is to find ways to change the trajectory of how we age,\u201d says Marco Quarta, Rubedo\u2019s cofounder and chief scientific officer. \u201cAging is complex. There are many mechanisms, but cellular senescence is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Senescent cells are also involved in normal biological processes, such as wound healing and tumor suppression, but their accumulation over time is associated with many age-related conditions. Getting rid of them is one of the leading strategies that anti-aging and longevity companies are pursuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rubedo\u2019s approach aims to clear out senescent cells by targeting a protein known as GPX4, a gatekeeper for cell survival. By transiently turning off GPX4, the drug is designed to make senescent cells more susceptible to ferroptosis, a regulated form of cell death, while reviving stressed, non-senescent cells nearby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-anti-aging-drug-trial-for-skin\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wave of biotech companies is looking to prove that it\u2019s possible to slow down the aging process. Mountain View, California\u2013based Rubedo Life Sciences is starting with the most outwardly visible sign: the skin. The company\u2019s experimental treatment is showing early promise that it may be able to reduce the appearance of aging, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1418,141,667,1369,733],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-aging","tag-health","tag-longevity","tag-regenerative-medicine","tag-skincare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After four weeks of using the cream, participants lowered the biological age of their skin by about two years on average.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8561\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age - 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