By Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Lab rats and roundworms live longer, healthier lives on strict low-calorie diets. Now, a biotech startup in an early stage of drug development is seeking to tap the public market as it researches drugs with the aim of reproducing those benefits in humans - but wit…

Did they fight a delaying action that allowed the main Greek army to escape and eventually defeat the Persians or did they fight to save their families from

300 proved to be a very enjoyable movie for me on different levels. As a historic piece, 300 certainly did justice to the heroic men that …

It is difficult to imagine that the movie, 300, could be any less of a spine tingler with such a The historic accounts are awe inspiring and guaranteed to send electric shocks all through your body. My first experience of that astounding story was in high school where we translated it in Latin cla…

The Dismal Lack of Abstraction in Biology

By Jurgen Kaljuvee

“Study mathematics like a house on fire” - Charles Darwin “We all stand on the shoulders of giants” - Isaac Newton

The two famous quotes by the founding fathers of biology and physics illustrates the crux of scientific inquiry. T…

Congress and President

Our Declaration of Independence declares that, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are inalienable rights for all humans. Heretofore, life was a fixed period of day, which has steadily risen by the years. The Coalition to Extend Life is looking for signatories for…

Nevertheless, the concept of being in a nursing home is a grim thought that leaves many citizens Sellers claim these will free parents of anxiety about becoming a burden and children about having to care for a doddering mom and dad. With the huge numbers of baby boomers entering their 60s — and p…

The goal of MitoSENS is to obviate mtDNA mutations by expressing the mtDNA genes from the nucleus

Mitochondria are a component of cells that perform cellular respiration. A side effect of that process is the production of reactive chemical byproducts that That is to say, they react oxygen with nu…

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals doses first diabetes patient in human clinical study with improved formulation of resveratrol

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, the leading sirtuin therapeutics company, announced today that SRT501, its initial clinical candidate which is a proprietary formulation o…

The bacteria’s newly sequenced genome, the complete set of DNA for the organism, is only one-third the size of the previously reported “smallest” cellular
The bacteria Carsonella ruddii has the fewest genes of any cell. Jensen

The smallest collection of genes ever found for a cellular organism…

student in the School of Life Sciences. Schloendorn is part of the institute’s inaugural doctoral graduate assistantship class of 2006.

Schloendorn’s pioneering work concerns a new field of research called medical

The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has awarded biochemist John…