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The end of aging as we know it? | Science Says

Benjamin Pollock March 13, 2023
While aging currently coincides with a myriad of chronic health conditions — thanks to Dr. David Sinclair’s lab at Harvard—age may soon really be just a number.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: It’s time to break up with sugar

Bailey Salimes March 17, 2022
In letting go of sugar, you are reducing your chances of meeting obesity later on in life and potentially saving yourself from a myriad of physical and mental health troubles.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Productivity has no time constraints, our work culture should be more accepting of night owls

Editors February 23, 2021
We need a serious re-evaluation and shifting of our cultural priorities. We must also destigmatize staying up late while being careful not to romanticize it. Otherwise, we risk enabling a cycle of staying up late and waking up early — i.e., not getting enough sleep.
The race to create a COVID-19 vaccine has opened up greater transparency in the vaccine-making process, also opening the process to public scrutiny. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Search for COVID-19 vaccine continues with promising results

Daily Free Press Staff October 29, 2020
With more than 1 million people around the world dead from COVID-19, the hunt for a vaccine is underway, and more than 100 countries are aiding its development.
KASTRITIS: A scientific understanding for the law

KASTRITIS: A scientific understanding for the law

Elias Kastritis November 27, 2016

Nowadays, there is a regrettable ambiguity in the general modern debate concerning the exact nature of human “rights” and “laws” and “justice,” but by no means is this ambiguity particular...

KASTRITIS: The dangers of fatalistic thinking

KASTRITIS: The dangers of fatalistic thinking

Elias Kastritis November 6, 2016

In the United States -- the land of opportunity, individual freedom and self-determination -- we face a considerable amount of scrutiny from others regarding our personal lifestyle choices. It is perhaps...

The United Kingdom’s House of Commons voted on Feb. 3 to allow research on mitochondrial DNA replacement therapy that will replace mutated mitochondria from a mother’s egg cell with that of healthy donor. GRAPHIC BY ERICA MAYBAUM AND SHIVANI PATEL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

To treat mitochondrial disease, mothers know best

Conner Reed February 12, 2015

If having a child meant hurting them, how far would people go to fix it? Science has known for a long time that everything a living being is boils down to long sequences encoded in DNA, passed down...

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is one of several institutions benefiting from U.S. President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. PHOTO BY MARARIE/FLICKR

Boston hospitals pave way for precision medicine

Olivia Deng February 5, 2015

Retail stores such as Brandy Melville are selling “one size fits all” clothing, but recent actions by the U.S. government have shown the adage does not apply to medical treatments. Friday, U.S. President...

Boston University researchers contributed to a study published Friday about how chemical changes in DNA predict aging. GRAPHIC BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

DNA chemical changes may better predict age, health, study finds

Inaara Tajuddin February 3, 2015

Biochemical changes in DNA may be able to predict biological age, according to a study released Friday in the journal Genome Biology. The study found that DNA methylation, a biochemical process where...

BU, MSU researchers zero in on genetic roots in butterflies

BU, MSU researchers zero in on genetic roots in butterflies

Becca DeGregorio September 18, 2014

All roads lead to Rome. Such a confident statement serves as the basis for the age-old biological theory commonly known as the “many roads” theory. Supporters of this theory believe that many random...

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