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 ...

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 ...

In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers found that the key to the whales’ lifespans is a ...

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

T he bowhead whale is the world’s longest-living mammal, sometimes making it to a staggering 200 years old. How does it do it ...

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 ...