Going gray is an inevitable, and for many, undesirable, part of aging, but health-wise, it’s no bad thing – it could reflect ...

In a study led by the University of Tokyo and published earlier this month in the journal Nature Cell Biology, researchers ...

Throughout life, our cells are constantly exposed to environmental and internal factors that can damage DNA. While such DNA ...

In a discovery that ties the biology of aging to cancer risk, scientists from the University of Tokyo have found that the ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

They observe how the mobile DNA LINE-1 copies its sequence in human cells, revealing the precise mechanism of the ORF2p gene.

Your silver strands might be doing more than showing your age, according to a new study out of the University of Tokyo.

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

New findings suggest the end-replication problem, an old standby of biology textbooks, is twice as intricate as once thought. Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson and Alexey Olovnikov ...