Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely available ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Darwin’s legacy, his gift to science is the ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

Aging is an Evolutionary Paradox Why do we age and die? Aging, or senescence as it is sometimes called, is an inevitable progressive deterioration of physiological function with increasing age, ...

A review article now published in "Nature Reviews Genetics" brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

This article predates Brown Brothers Media’s ownership of Science Blog and has not been reviewed under our current editorial process. It is preserved as part of the publication’s archive. In 1874, a ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. Subscribe to ...

Columbia researchers discovered a bacterial antiviral system called DRT10 that shares an evolutionary origin with telomerase, opening new paths for genome engineering, anti-aging research, and cancer ...

Birds of a feather may flock together, but in the Camargue region of France, migratory pink flamingoes age slower than resident flamingoes. Reading time 3 minutes Despite the uniform appearance of ...