Do older mothers really live longer? And what does it mean if they do?
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Photo by Chris Zielecki via Flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA. You may have seen the headlines: “Older mothers tend to live longer,” was how…
Photo by Chris Zielecki via Flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA. You may have seen the headlines: “Older mothers tend to live longer,” was how…
Last summer, Science retracted a much-publicized paperon the genetics of longevity by a team of Boston University reasearchers.
Three papers published last month that I found to be of interest are listed here. These are:The mystery of missing heritability…
By David Hinds, Chuong Do, and Shirley…
Via Scoop.it – Med…
With analytical contributions from 23andMe Scientist David…
Evolution can make leaps—but how frequently? Photo by Flavio Martins.Does evolutionary change happen in big jumps, or a series…
The research team that retracted a Science paper reporting a genetic signature for extreme longevity has published a re-analysis…
La settimana scorsa sono stato invitato dal prof. Mandrioli (Università di Modena) per un seminario. L’argomento principale era…
A bold set of claims from this group working on the genetics of natural variation in longevity for humans: "Like most complex…
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