A team of scientists at the University of Seville has identified an essential process that protects DNA integrity in reproductive cells, providing new clues about how organisms avoid genetic defects ...

Bowhead whales produce a unique protein that repairs DNA damage, a discovery that could help humans extend lifespan and ...

The study highlights the importance of DNA repair systems in fertility and healthy development, and could pave the way for new research into reproductive disorders in humans ...

Brains with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) show DNA damage similar to Alzheimer’s. Study links genetic stress to ...

An international team led by researchers from King's College London (KCL) has now found that stubbornly persistent blood ...

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

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

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

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

As humans age, we become more vulnerable to cancer and other diseases. Bowhead whales, however, can live for up to 200 years ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...