A medication for diabetes could be a "wonder drug" for healthy aging.

Stem cells possess the unique ability to self-renew and transform into different types of cells. For example, rare ...

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 ...

In a new study, Mass General Brigham researchers explore the causes of immune aging, a barrier to successful cancer ...

Aging varies markedly among individuals and between sexes, yet the timing of major physiological transitions and the factors ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), ...

Cells transcribe active genes into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, using a crucial complex known as RNA polymerase II. These mRNA transcripts are then translated into proteins by other cellular ...

At your earliest embryonic moments of life, you had the superpower of X-Men's Wolverine. You could regenerate.

Cell biologist Junyue Cao creates high-throughput single-cell methods to explore how aging shapes cells and organisms.

In some ways, we know aging when we see it, from the graying of hair to the wrinkling of skin to declines in motor, sensory, and cognitive capacities. Yet the underlying biology of aging remains a ...