`Elixir of youth` comes closer to reality
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown that senescent cells, which are cells that no longer divide and accumulate with age, negatively impact health and shorten lifespan by as much as 35 percent in normal mice.
Feb 04, 2016, 13:57 PM ISTNew biological mechanism that causes cancer found
In a landmark study, researchers have found that unusual changes in the instructions for how the genome folds up on itself could be a completely new biological mechanism that underlies cancer.
Dec 25, 2015, 00:26 AM IST