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...
James Peyer: Navigating the “Biotech Valley of Death”
Ever hear about an exciting discovery in the biomedical world, then later wonder why it seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth? In fact, it’...
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...
Research roundup: Tau tangles guilty by association, and more
It looks like those clumps of tau protein that form inside the neurons of Alzheimer’s brains may actually be protective, and the real damage mig...
In the media: Telomeres, translation, and treatment
“All of this time I had been thinking about telomere maintenance in terms of the minuscule cellular molecular structures that they are, and the ...
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...