Just as the deregulation of banks and businesses is believed to have contributed to the financial crisis, researchers at Harvard are saying the deregulation of certain genes leads to cell damage and ...

Two major theories of aging both involve DNA, but in very different ways. Researchers have revealed that these theories may not be so different after all. Researchers at University of California San ...

Why do we age and die? Aging, or senescence as it is sometimes called, is an inevitable progressive deterioration of physiological function with increasing age, demographically characterized by an age ...

Aging is a complex process that has long puzzled scientists. A recent study published in Engineering proposes a new theory ...

In late 2021 an Israeli billionaire named Yuri Milner gathered some of the most celebrated scientific minds of our time at his lavish US$100-million-dollar mansion in California. The topic of ...

The question of how and why we age is of more than passing interest for most people. And yet we know very little about it. Today, Thomas Michelitsch at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris ...

The number of patients with cancer who are age 65 years or older (hereinafter “older”) is increasing dramatically. One obvious aspect of cancer care for this group is that they are experiencing ...

The couple went on a quest to find a general theory that could explain what aging is and why and how it happens. After more than 20 years of "sustained intellectual effort"—first at Moscow State ...

Worms that were genetically modified by McGill University researchers not only survived exposure to a banned poison, they lived even longer than normal worms, challenging scientists' understanding of ...

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