Cutting calories keeps yeast alive and growing long past the time they’d usually stop reproducing, a large-scale study shows. A new mass-tracking apparatus, called a microfluidic single-cell analysis ...

For life on planet Earth, all roads inevitably lead to death, but they’re not all paved the same. This is what Nan Hao, an associate professor in molecular biology at the University of California, San ...

The microbiome is made up of millions of bacteria and yeast that live in your gastrointestinal system and affect your health.

This week, an independent group of researchers offered up yet another possibility: the cells just weren’t there to be counted. The team tested calorie restriction on its own microfluidics device and ...

In doing so, it keeps nicotinamide from inhibiting Sir2, allowing the yeast to live longer. The finding implies that lifespan is not simply dependent on accumulated wear and tear or metabolism, as ...

Caloric restriction (CR) is known to extend life-span in many species, and is thought to work by slowing metabolism and thus the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species. In the 22 September ...