genetics

Google-Backed Calico Partners With Ancestry to Beat the Specter of Aging

Posted in Business on 27th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Calico will look for genetic patterns in people who have lived exceptionally long lives, then make drugs to help more of us do that.

Brain Imaging Shows How Children Inherit Their Parents' Anxiety

Posted in Science on 8th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

A prefrontal-limbic-midbrain circuit is responsible for the genetic transfer of an anxious temperament.

Evolutionary adaptations in organisms can be reversed, but rarely

Posted in Science on 7th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

Scientists have showed that some species of insects have gained, lost and regained wings over millions of years.

Rates of bioloical ageing vary widely, says study

Posted in Medicine on 7th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

A study of people born within a year of each other has uncovered a huge gulf in the speed at which their bodies age.

Some updates in the quest for a cure for aging

Posted in Business on 30th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller

Google isn't the only company putting millions of dollars into ending the effects of aging.