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Space aging
People have been talking about terraforming and colonizing Mars since the beginning of space travel, and in the past few years that ambition seems to ...
Using neurodegeneration to fight cancer safely and effectively
The "magic bullet", a universal solution to target all cancer types without harming normal body cells, is what early cancer researchers thought we'd i...
The chaotic inner life of cancer
(Continued from part I) Most people who’ve meet cancer on the battlefield of treatment, doctors or patients, come away with the impression of a robust...
Cancer’s little helper
A menacing shadow looms large over the body. Lessons we’ve learned from the eternal struggle of organism against cell are etched into the farthest cor...
Research roundup: The naked (mole rat) truth, and more
What good is a longer life if you have to spend half of it keeping up with the news? Ditch those endlessly scrolling feeds, and instead join us every ...
James Peyer: Where are stem cell therapies headed?
Someday soon we may be able to replace tissues or entire organs with those grown from a patients’ own stem cells… but just how soon? What ...
Research roundup: Muscles from the lab, and more
We know you want to keep up with the relentless march of progress, but sometimes it’s just too relentless. So why not forget all those endlessly...
Are cancer prevention and cellular reprogramming really enemies?
Imagine a physiological love triangle: in one corner, a force with the weight of millions of years of evolutionary programming trained on preventing r...
Research roundup: The microbiome in neurodegenerative disease, and more
It’s looking increasingly likely that our little bacterial buddies have a major influence on neurodegenerative disease, from producing extra amy...