Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting about 10 percent of people over the age of 65 and one third of people aged 85 and above. Besides environmental ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

Worms offer a simple yet powerful whole-organism model for studying senescence, mirroring mammalian aging processes and ...