“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. In thinking about the mechanisms of aging – we ...
The co-option between viruses and humans plays important roles during human evolution. Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), belonging to long terminal repeat retrotransposons, are a relic of ancient ...
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What is the genetic theory of aging?

The genetic theory of aging says your life span is mostly determined by the genes from your parents. Telomeres are DNA ...
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old ...
In late 2021 an Israeli billionaire named Yuri Milner gathered some of the most celebrated scientific minds of our time at his lavish US$100-million-dollar mansion in California. The topic of ...
Two major theories of aging both involve DNA, but in very different ways. Researchers have revealed that these theories may not be so different after all. Researchers at University of California San ...
Using patient data from several banks of genomics data, researchers at UC San Diego were able to make similar predictions of aging using either mutations or epigenetic modifications. Their results ...