What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ...

The INO80 chromatin remodelling complex has various roles in genome maintenance, acting via nucleosome sliding and H2A.Z ...

A clump of proteins seems to be in charge of the level of DNA repair that takes place in our bodies, determining how fast mutations accumulate in our cells over a lifetime – and might thus affect our ...

The secret to the naked mole-rats’ extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers report. According to a new study, evolutionary mutations in cGAS – an ...

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens. A pathway known for repairing damaged genetic material, called the ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a "zero day" vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used ...

A report said DNA collected at checkpoints from about 2,000 Americans, mostly during the Biden administration, was sent to an F.B.I. database. Hundreds were not charged. By Francesca Regalado ...

The findings offer potential insights into why naked mole-rats exhibit remarkable resistance to a wide spectrum of ...