10+ min ago   (744+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to testing therapies that slow human aging has been painfully simple: aging takes decades to measure. A drug that genuinely delays the biological processes of aging would need years, often a lifetime, of follow-up before…...

3+ hour, 39+ min ago   (568+ words) Beneath the sun-baked soils of eastern and southern Africa, a family of rodents has quietly rewritten the rules of mammalian life. Naked mole-rats resist cancer, tolerate near-anoxic conditions and barely age. Damaraland mole-rats dig elaborate tunnel networks and live in…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (640+ words) The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has unveiled an ambitious new fellowship designed to reshape how the next generation of animal science professionals is trained. Known as F.U.S.E....

6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (115+ words) The world’s staple grains may be on the verge of an identity change. Rice, maize and wheat, crops that have long been valued almost exclusively for their starch and protein, are emerging as promising biological factories for some of the…...

9+ hour, 8+ min ago   (741+ words) The CRISPR world has long been organized around a simple division of labor: some Cas enzymes are steered by RNA guides to cut DNA, while others are loaded with DNA guides to find RNA....

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (55+ words) Researchers in Germany have unveiled a streamlined genome-editing tool that could make it considerably easier to engineer Bacillus bacteria, a group of microbes that sits at the heart of numerous industrial processes, from enzyme production to the manufacture of vitamins…...