Why elephants rarely get cancer?
Elephants have 38 additional modified copies (alleles) of a gene that encodes p53, a well-defined tumor suppressor, as compared to...
Smoking and alcohol use are linked to premature aging
Cigarette smoking and heavy alcohol use cause epigenetic changes to DNA that reflect accelerated biological aging in distinct, measurable...
The Nobel Prize 2015 for medicine
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the Nobel prize in medicine. Irish scientist William C. Campbell and Japanese...
