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...
This chip can pluck the bad apples out of your blood
Many years from now, you’re reclining in one of the many gray-blue armchairs that line the walls of a clinic. Your arm is propped up on a collapsible ...
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...
Will this protein help speed up clinical trials?
Biomarkers are a big deal in the clinical world: if as a doctor you’re able to take one simple measurement that allows you to look into a patient’s fu...
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...
Can reducing PPAR-γ save the immune system?
One contributor to the aging of your immune system is that your thymus–the gland that turns leukocytes into T cells–is slowly replaced by ...
A peek inside the companies using AI to combat aging
Last Wednesday I attended the Buck Institute’s workshop on AI and Longevity, where speakers from several different organizations discussed how t...
Oxidative stress response: One of the many jobs of tumor-suppressor p53
At its most dramatic, oxidative stress can rend DNA in two and predispose cells to mutations that ultimately result in cancer. But the less bombastic ...
Could marmosets become the new standard in animal models?
In biomedical science, rodents are the old stalwarts: they’re cheap, easy to care for, have lives short enough to allow us to observe them over the co...