Scientists and sociologists explain why women often live longer than men, from biological advantages to lifestyle choices and ...

Deep within tropical forests, sloths move at a pace that seems almost frozen in time. Their slow movements, low energy use, ...

A study of long-lived families has identified rare genetic variants that may help people stay healthier for much longer as they age. One standout mutation appears to temper inflammation, potentially ...

The history of science is crowded with people whose ideas arrived before the rest of the field was ready for them. Tibor Gánti belonged somewhere in that uneasy category: respected in small circles, ...

Biology has clever ways to mask the effects of potentially harmful gene mutations. Scientists are investigating how this ...

What if a single sentence could carry two completely different meanings, one when read forward and another when read backward ...

Is it a doctor's job to get the best outcomes for their patients or to tell the truth? What happens when these two things are not aligned? These are questions that University of Washington students ...

Scientists say aging may expose decades of hidden damage, helping trigger diseases that seem to appear out of nowhere in ...

Merck & Co. will partner with Protillion Biosciences to discover multiple new therapy candidates, through a collaboration ...

Younger generations may be aging biologically faster than those before them, and that shift could help explain rising rates ...

Scientists at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) here have identified a new mechanism that allows malaria ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...