Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

Nature's oldest creatures defy aging rules. Greenland sharks live nearly 400 years. Ocean quahogs reach over 500 years.

Is the key to living over 200 hidden in the icy sea of the Arctic? The bowhead whale, an 80,000-kilogram insulating blubber ...

Bigger animals such as whales and elephants, should have a higher risk of succumbing to cancer as they have more cells dividing over a longer period, leaving more room for mutations.

Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

In the icy waters of the Arctic lives a giant whose longevity challenges commonly accepted biological laws. The bowhead whale ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...

HUMANS could live for centuries after scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal. The bowhead whale that can live for more than 200 years could hold the key to prolonging ...