The Dog Aging Project enrolled 50,000 companion animals to track aging as it naturally unfolds. The first major findings from ...

New research posits that a genetic incompatibility between female offspring of humans and Neanderthals and their children ...

T he bowhead whale is the world’s longest-living mammal, sometimes making it to a staggering 200 years old. How does it do it ...

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

A BIZARRE mystery is unfolding in the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl — where several stray dogs have inexplicably turned ...

This may help explain how cells maintain identity while still adapting to new environments: memory nodes link genetic information to physical structure, allowing new genome ‘stories ... building human ...

Cold-activated DNA repair protein in bowhead whales boosts longevity and radiation resistance in lab tests, say media reports ...

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, ...

HUMANS could live for centuries after scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal. The bowhead whale that can live for more than 200 years could hold the key to prolonging ...

In a laboratory in Florida, a house cat named Pepper has again been involved in the unanticipated discovery of a new virus as ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...