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In a new study published in Kidney International, researchers report that drugs known as SGLT2 inhibitors prevented ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving ...

Joshua trees typically bloom in February and April, according to Jeremy Yoder, an associate professor of biology at California State University, Northridge, and principal investigator at the Yoder Lab ...

Across reptiles, birds, rodents, and humans, the brain showed the same slow rhythm, cycling over tens of seconds. This ...

Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

A study of dolphins’ epigenetic ages found that animals with more high-quality friendships were biologically younger than their lonely peers ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

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