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UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65 scientists in seven countries to record age-related changes to human DNA, calculate biological age and estimate...

New research published in Cell Reports identifies a potential treatment target for blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and advanced dry age-related macular degeneration. In...

Can having a few drinks help people with clinical depression feel better? Yes. At least in terms of biochemistry. In a study published in the...

Over two thirds (68 per cent) of the public would like more rest, according to the world’s largest ever survey on the topic. The results...

MIT researchers have designed nanosensors that can profile tumors and may yield insight into how they will respond to certain therapies. The system is based...

Many diseases that lead to blindness, such as glaucoma and macular degeneration, are caused by the death of certain cells in the human retina that...

Every action we take involves a cost to us in physical energy, yet studies about decision-making have tended to look at how we weight up...

Breastfeeding as recommended — for a total of one year and exclusively for six months — could protect babies and their moms from premature death...

The brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst in the hours before sleep, according to a study published in the journal Nature by McGill University researchers. Blue...

A Norwegian study shows that asthma is three times more common in those who had a father who smoked in adolescence than offspring who didn’t....

Depression in pregnancy increases the risk of behavioural and emotional problems in children, says a new review published in The Lancet Psychiatry. The authors of...

The Region of the Americas is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including...

First generation cephalosporins — antibiotics introduced as a treatment against bacterial infections in 1963 — now show promise for tuberculosis (TB) therapy, according to new...

A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.The early-stage research, conducted on human cells in...

The genetic information of every cell is encoded in the sequence of the DNA double helix. Double strand breaks in the DNA, which can be...