After 6 months in orbit, Caenorhabditis elegans return to Earth—alive and well.
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Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.
Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Age: 42
Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.
Scientists are beginning to discover myriad strategies tumors use to avoid attacks by anti-cancer drugs.
Living conditions in early life can have lasting, widespread effects on DNA methylation.
For the first time researchers have shown that epigenetic changes that increase lifespan can be inherited across multiple generations.
Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.
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