Study on mice: Exercising later in life can keep your muscles young
Exercising was shown to give elderly mice the muscles of those much younger.
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How dad’s bad diet may have impacted your disease risk
Careful with your diet, dads!
Genetic response to starvation is passed down to at least three generations
In 1944, the Nazis caused widespread famine in Western Netherlands after they blocked food supplies. A group of pregnant women ...
Brawls for colony domination transforms winning worker ants into queens without DNA changes
Harpegnathos saltator ants undergo dramatic physiological changes triggered by heightened dopamine levels, following ascension of the colony's social ladder. It's ...
Promiscuous female mice breed sexier male offspring. Research may help conservation efforts
University of Utah researchers found that female mice that live in a competitive social environment and choose to mate casually ...
Cloned animals aren’t identical – we’re still far from the perfect clone
It is generally believed that a cloned animal is identical to its host from where cells were initially harvested, however ...
Beating cancer by making it forget what it is [TED VIDEO]
(c) DANA SMITH Dr. Jay Bradner, a physician and chemical biologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, makes beating cancer sound ...