King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

Brains with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) show DNA damage similar to Alzheimer’s. Study links genetic stress to ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is chemoresistance: Tumors that initially respond well to chemotherapy ...

Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

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

Bowhead whales—the only warm-blooded mammal that outlives humans—can survive for 200 years and seldom get age-related diseases like cancer ...

A label-free nanopore platform uses programmable DNA circuits to build versatile molecular logic gates, forming a universal basis for scalable DNA computing and advanced biosensing applications.

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

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 ...

Four subtle tweaks to an enzyme could help explain why naked mole rats can live for nearly 30 years, an unusually long lifespan for creatures their size. In a study 1, published in Science today, ...

When it comes to treating disease, one promising avenue is addressing the presence of senescent cells. These cells—also known ...

Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...