Reducing body temperature by entering a torpor-like state, like hibernation in animals, could keep you younger, a study in ...

Penn Vet researchers show that the immune system can recognize and control the latent stage of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a finding that can inform the study of latency in other infections of the ...

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

The New York Genome Center announces Bing Ren, PhD, as the New Scientific Director and CEO of the New York Genome Center and Professor in the Departments of Genetics and Development, Biochemistry and ...

The drop in body temperature that occurs during a torpid state is linked to molecular markers of longer life in mice.

The lab of Whitehead Institute Member Siniša Hrvatin studies daily torpor, which lasts several hours, and its longer counterpart, hibernation, in order to understand their effects on tissue ...

The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research became financially independent from MIT in 1982. The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research while fiscally independent is attached to MIT via ...

Keeping cool could help stall the signs of ageing, going by tests on mice carried out by scientists at Massachusetts ...

In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start to move and shake, leading to contractions that cause it to squeeze, pinch, and eventually divide. As daughter cells follow ...