Is the key to living over 200 hidden in the icy sea of the Arctic? The bowhead whale, an 80,000-kilogram insulating blubber ...

Learn more about bowhead whales and how they routinely see out their 200th birthday — and this DNA-repair protein might just ...

Bowhead whales can live over 200 years thanks to a protein that helps their cells repair DNA damage efficiently.

Deinococcus radiodurans is renowned for its extraordinary resistance to ionising radiation and other environmental stresses. This bacterium employs a combination of passive and active mechanisms to ...

Researchers discovered that bowhead whales achieve extraordinary longevity and cancer resistance through highly efficient and ...

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Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their longevity. These burrow-dwelling rats have a maximum life span of nearly ...

One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is chemoresistance: tumors that initially respond well to chemotherapy ...