1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (744+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to testing therapies that slow human aging has been painfully simple: aging takes decades to measure. A drug that genuinely delays the biological processes of aging would need years, often a lifetime, of follow-up before…...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (597+ words) The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most repetitive genomes among vertebrates, and yet the detailed architecture of their repetitive DNA has remained poorly explored compared with mammals,…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (653+ words) A new study comparing the two main ways of freezing human sperm has found that even when samples look equally healthy under the microscope, the proteins inside them tell a strikingly different story....

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (92+ words) This June, ten of the life sciences industry’s most respected board members came to New York for Accenture’s second annual Life Sciences Board Forum for something this industr... Ten life sciences board directors on AI's three hardest questions: developing the…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (84+ words) Every year, a substantial share of the apples grown across Europe never reaches a consumer. The European Union harvested roughly 11.5 million tons of apples in 2023, yet estimates suggest that more than 20 percent is lost during primary production, with further losses…...

3+ hour, 9+ min ago   (34+ words) Alas, We Don’t Know What They Can Experience. For decades, we imagined the disturbing future as a machine becoming alive. A computer would grow more …...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (350+ words) Scientists at Uppsala University have taken a significant step toward a long-sought goal in industrial biotechnology: using sunlight and carbon dioxide to feed engineered microbes that churn out valuable chemicals. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Stamatina…...

4+ hour, 31+ min ago   (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (746+ words) A sweeping new review published in Discover Chemistry charts the remarkable rise of proteolysis-targeting chimeras, better known as PROTACs, from a bold theoretical idea to one of the most closely watched platforms in modern drug discovery. Written by Sandip G....

5+ hour, 16+ min ago   (87+ words) Cellular senescence, one of the most closely studied hallmarks of aging, has long been a paradox in biology. On the one hand, it protects organisms by halting the division of damaged cells that might otherwise become cancerous. On the other,…...