Recent research has uncovered a fascinating mechanism in the nematode worm C. elegans that could have profound implications ...

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) live year-round in the icy or near-icy waters of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Although they ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

Hz: a frequency believed to promote dna repair and positive transformation. Let the soothing tones guide you through a ...

Researchers found that losing a second protein, FIGNL1, allows cancer cells missing BRCA2 to restore DNA repair by reloading ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...

Using comparative molecular biology with human cGAS – which actually inhibits DNA repair – the scientists found that the naked mole-rat's enzyme has four key changes that facilitate the important work ...

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret ...

Naked mole rats live for up to 40 years, compared to about three years for a mouse [Washington Post via Getty Images] They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and ...

Naked mole rats live for up to 37 years – far longer than other rodents their size. What is the secret of their longevity? Among other factors, it could be down to a variant of an immune protein that ...