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Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIt can be hard to tell, at first, when a cell is on the verge of self-destruction. It appears to be going about its usual...

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What Makes Life Tick? Mitochondria May Keep Time for Cells | Quanta Magazine

Introduction Just as people in different places seem to operate at different rhythms, so too do different species. They age at their own rates: Some,...

Radiodynamic therapy: harnessing light to improve cancer treatments – Physics World

Tumours can be destroyed in many ways. Radiotherapy uses beams of ionizing radiation to damage DNA and destroy tumour cells. A...

Towards a cure for ALS: magnetic stimulation restores impaired motoneurons – Physics World

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe incurable disorder in which motoneurons – nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord...

Scientists Nearly Doubled Yeast Cells’ Longevity With a Clever Genetic Hack

While human aging is the result of many interconnected processes, one of the most fundamental is the natural deterioration of individual cells. Now researchers...

This Longevity Study Across 5 Species Found a New Pathway to Reverse Aging

Our bodies’ molecular machinery breaks down with age.DNA accumulate mutations. Their protective ends erode away. Mitochondria, the cell’s energy factory, falter and break down....

Primitive Asgard Cells Show Life on the Brink of Complexity

IntroductionAn oak tree. The symbiotic fungus intertwined with its roots. A cardinal chirping from one of its branches. Our best clue yet to their...

Cutting Out Just a Muffin a Day Can Make You Age More Slowly, Study Finds

Death comes for us all. Aging, maybe not.It sounds preposterous, but plenty of animals—from the lowly jellyfish to naked mole rats and giant tortoises—show...

Scientists Say They Can Bring Back the Dodo. Should They?

With a massive beak, googly eyes, rotund body, and disproportionately small feathered tail, the dodo is iconic for all the wrong reasons. The flightless...

DARPA Wants to Develop a Drug to Make People Resistant to Extreme Cold

From painkillers to antihistamines to caffeine and beyond, we’ve found many ways to get our bodies to tolerate uncomfortable circumstances, for better and for...

She Finds Keys to Ecology in Cells That Steal From Others

IntroductionNature, red in tooth and claw, is rife with organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead. But in the systems studied by the...

What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.

IntroductionIt’s often subtle at first. A lost phone. A forgotten word. A missed appointment. By the time a person walks into a doctor’s office,...

Plants make their own ‘secret’ decisions about carbon release

Photosynthesis is the process used by plants to transform water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy in the form of sugar. But...

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