Modern humans now routinely survive to advanced ages, in far greater proportions than ancestral populations, and thus experience the consequences of molecular pathways optimized for youth yet still ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

Although the focus of cancer biologists is typically on understanding why we develop cancers (and how to prevent them), we should also marvel at how we can develop into a body with 5–7 trillion ...

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. In thinking about the mechanisms of aging – we ...

A unique gene found in sloths might hold the key to ageing well, a pioneering study has suggested. In a scientific first, researchers have sequenced and analysed the genome of the tree-dwelling ...

A review article published in “Nature Reviews Genetics” brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why ageing rates differ among ...