If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

Our bodies do not age at a uniform rate. The speed at which one organ ages can differ greatly from another due to a range of ...

What if you could get checked for colon cancer with only a routine blood draw? A new blood test in Michigan is making the ...

In polar bears, dolphins, baboons and more, molecular signatures of aging are changing how conservationists assess population ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their ...

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a bit of DNA. This ...

Does heart disease or cancer run in your family? MUSC researchers have created a program to identify whether you’re at an ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

A North Texas lab worked around the clock to give families in the Hill Country much needed answers. SAN ANTONIO — In July, ...

It's more than a year since Anastasiia Tsvietkova's husband went missing fighting the Russians near the eastern city of ...

The visible effects of ageing on our body are in part linked to invisible changes in gene activity. The epigenetic process of DNA methylation — the addition or removal of tags called methyl groups — ...