Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...

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

A specific genetic detector could offer potential to doctors in reversing damages in the sensory cells of the inner ear, ...

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

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Bowhead whales boost DNA repair to live centuries and extend human longevity potential Bowhead whale protein enhances ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer ...

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan ...

Ageing is inevitable but the rate of decline can be offset by regular exercise, says Dr Paul Taylor, author of 'The Hardiness Effect' ...

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