Fountain of Youth: Cutting Calories and Eating at the Right Time of Day Leads to a Longer Life
One recipe for longevity is simple, if not easy to follow: eat less. Restricting calories can lead to a longer, healthier life, as studies have…
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One recipe for longevity is simple, if not easy to follow: eat less. Restricting calories can lead to a longer, healthier life, as studies have…
Biologist Xinnian Dong says her “best Christmas gift ever” arrived in the form of a phone call. The call was from her longtime friend and…
The breakthrough came on molecular biologist Christopher Garcia’s birthday. For more than 20 years, his team and others around the world had been chasing an…
Gut bacteria brew all sorts of chemicals, but we don’t know what most of them do. A new study suggests that one such compound, previously…
In mice, a vaccination strategy that uses an mRNA coronavirus vaccine injection followed by a nasal spray booster generates immune protection in the airways. A…
The leopard gecko’s name was Mr. Frosty, and he was hard to miss. Yellow bands striped his back, and uncommonly white skin peeked out from…
Some RNA Molecules Have Unexpected Sugar Coating Sugars attach to certain RNA molecules on the outside membrane of the cell. The newly discovered “glycoRNAs” may…
A bold project to read the complete genetic sequences of every known vertebrate species reaches its first milestone by publishing new methods and the first…
For people with tooth decay, drinking a cold beverage can be agony. “It’s a unique kind of pain,” says David Clapham, vice president and chief scientific…
People taking cholesterol-lowering drugs may fare better than others if they catch the novel coronavirus. A new study hints at why: the virus relies on…
A new imaging technology lets scientists spy on the flurry of messages passed within cells as they do . . . potentially everything. Until…
It’s one of the world’s deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human blood: the mosquito. Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow…
Human appetites have transformed the tomato — DNA and all. After centuries of breeding, what was once a South American berry roughly the size of…
For some COVID-19 patients, the body’s immune response may be as destructive as the virus that causes the disease. The persistent high fevers, severe respiratory…
A new international project aims to enroll 500 COVID-19 patients to search for genetic mutations that make some people more vulnerable to severe infection. Howard…
The first complete genetic sequences of individual mountain lions point the way to better conservation strategies for saving threatened populations of the wild animals. When…
Cells that eventually become neurons (red, orange, and yellow spheres) migrate during embryonic development. The migrating baby neurons that build the spinal cord are color-coded…
Yale undergraduates participating in Yale’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory course had their findings on organisms capable of degrading polyurethane published in the journal Applied and…