Imagine that today is your first day at a brand new job, and your new boss slaps an enormous booklet on your desk, then walks off without a word. The ...
Evolution: Pulling doubled lifespan out of a hat
Part III of III in a series on the evolution of aging. (Part I, Part II) If all you had to go on was our genomes, you’d surely conclude that humans an...
Evolution eats the old to feed the young
Part II of III in a series on the evolution of aging. (Part I, Part III) Sex and death have been friends for a long time. Many people would tell you t...
How your ancestors’ lifestyle determines your lifespan
Part I of III in a series on the evolution of aging. (Part II, Part III) Here’s an interesting experiment that I don’t recommend trying at home. Take ...
A bountiful harvest of research
Keeping one eye on your calories, and the other on that delicious-looking pumpkin pie? Don’t worry–your Thanksgiving sins probably wonR...
Diagnosis: Cursed?
The year is 1996, and you’re a doctor with a strange case on your hands. Actually, it’s not just one case–it’s an entire family with a collectio...
Research roundup: The Hippo in your heart, and more
The Hippo pathway controls cellular regeneration, so why not modify it to heal the heart after the scarring caused by a heart attack? Six weeks later,...
In the media: Mouse mugshots, metabolic mayhem and metformin
Is a picture worth a thousand biomarkers? MouseAGE, the AI that wants to eyeball the age of rodents, thinks so. Dr. Craig Thomspon talks cancer metabo...
Longevity orthologs: How far from the apple to the tree?
Laboratories studying the biology of aging are a menagerie of creatures great and small. From unicellular yeast and nematodes, all the way up to prima...
Research roundup: Ancient worms of the deep sea provide clues to the evolution of long lifespans, and more
Lessons from 300 year old tubeworms: The low 0.67% mortality rate … supports longevity theory, which states that in the absence of extrinsic mor...