For decades, circular RNA was treated as little more than molecular background noise — stable fragments that accumulated in ...

Scientists found that compounds in coffee interact with a cell receptor that helps reduce stress and inflammation.

Scientists have discovered that a protein linked to cell death is secretly driving the aging of blood stem cells in a completely different way. Instead of killing the cells, it damages their ...

Cellular senescence is a key biological process characterized by cells irreversibly stopping their division, often triggered ...

Scientists succeed in reversing liver damage by removing key aged cells, p21-TREM2, that cause inflammation and fat ...

Aging and cancer are deeply intertwined: advancing age is the single largest risk factor for most malignancies, and many of the molecular processes that ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these added golden years are not spent in good health. Aging is a natural part of ...

As we age, our ability to maintain healthy blood and a strong immune system gradually declines, largely because hematopoietic ...

(Aging Untold) — The human body is made up of trillions of cells that perform functions from skin protection to muscle movement. Cells can renew themselves and remove damaged cells, but aging and ...

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Researchers have identified an unexpected mechanism that links age-related stress to the decline of blood-forming stem cells.

Yuancheng Ryan Lu could barely breathe while he waited for his labmate to adjust the microscope focus. On the slide in front ...