Tradeoff-free longevity?
This Week in Evolution,
I have argued that understanding evolutionary tradeoffs is key to improving agriculture and increasing longevity. For example…
I have argued that understanding evolutionary tradeoffs is key to improving agriculture and increasing longevity. For example…
Years ago, someone reinvented a method I'd published in a journal he regularly read (and published in), without citing my paper.
You could have gone to a 4-year college with smaller classes and professors focused mainly on teaching, rather than research. …
Some pretty cool links for your weekend: Jurassic Park beer: Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. makes beer with an Eocene-era yeast…
A year ago, I was passing through beautiful Brisbane (in the news recently because of disastrous flooding) on my way back from…
Our paper showing that delaying reproduction can increase fitness (when environmental cues predict population decline) was…
I'm working on my talk for the Applied Evolution Summit, so don't have time to write a detailed post, but here are some papers…
This week's paper sheds new light on trade-offs between longevity and reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans. This nematode…
"Can you tell me, in lay language, what makes this achievement significant?" "I can try", said Denison, cautiously. -…
Just as I was starting to dip into retirement savings to keep my lab going, we got word that both of the grant proposals we…
I hope to welcome one or possibly two new graduate students in autumn 2010. Here's the summary I wrote for the Ecology…
Now the New York Times is reporting on the two aging studies I mentioned yesterday. It's a good article, except for this part…
If you could choose a longer, healthier life, but only by having fewer kids, would you? What if you could eventually have the…
Subtleties of Calorie Restriction and…
"When stress predicts a shrinking gene pool, trading early reproduction for longevity can increase fitness, even with lower…