Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans.

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

A molecular biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found a new "rule of biology." A rule of biology, sometimes called a biological law, describes a recognized ...

A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large-scale human genetics to explain why we age and why aging rates differ ...

The redox theory of aging proposes that an oxidative imbalance, possibly amplified by infection, drives senescence. We experimentally evolved mosquitoes under early or late reproduction with or ...

As recently as the mid-20th century, aging was described by Nobel Prize laureate Peter Medawar as "an unsolved problem in ...

We propose a new theory for aging based on dynamical systems and provide a data-driven computational method to quantify the changes at the cellular level. We use ergodic theory to decompose the ...

Hevolution Foundation is catalyzing the shift from lifespan to healthspan by advancing the field of geroscience for healthier, longer lives. Author: Hevolution Foundation Aging impacts us all, ...