Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) live year-round in the icy or near-icy waters of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Although they migrate with the seasonal cycles of ice formation and melting, they never ...
Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...
Researchers found that losing a second protein, FIGNL1, allows cancer cells missing BRCA2 to restore DNA repair by reloading ...
New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining ...
Bowhead whales—some of the longest-lived mammals on the planet—may owe their impressive lifespans to a knack for cellular ...
A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...
Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...
The rings of DNA inside mitochondria are inaccessible to these techniques, which means that precise edits to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) remain frustratingly out of reach. “Mitochondria missed the ...