An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Three copies of chromosome 21 cause Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with ...

A powerful new drug combination—niraparib added to standard prostate cancer therapy—has been shown to significantly delay ...

Advances in genome editing are transforming the treatment for rare genetic diseases, as seen in the case of seven-month-old ...

When improperly folded proteins build up in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), cells become stressed and conditions such as type ...

Molecular analysis of the naked mole rat's extraordinary lifespan is helping scientists to understand the human aging process ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Longevity of the rodent family could inspire new therapeutic anti-ageing strategy to improve the health and lifespan of ...

These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...