Biology

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17-Dec-2025

Q&A: From 'mongoose-like' to lions, tigers and bears (oh my) — how changes in Earth's climate shaped carnivorans

University of Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by the University of Washington suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled the diversification of carnivoran body plans.

Journal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Funder

National Science Foundation, University of Texas early career provost fellowship, Arthur James Boucot research grant, Burke Museum, European Research Council

17-Dec-2025

Q&A: From 'mongoose-like' to lions, tigers and bears (oh my) — how changes in Earth's climate shaped carnivorans

University of Washington
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research led by the University of Washington suggests that two different climate transitions millions of years ago fueled the diversification of carnivoran body plans.

Journal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Funder

National Science Foundation, University of Texas early career provost fellowship, Arthur James Boucot research grant, Burke Museum, European Research Council

17-Dec-2025

Aging-US now on ResearchGate, enhancing visibility for authors and readers

Impact Journals LLC
Business Announcement

BUFFALO, NY— December 17, 2025 — We are pleased to announce that we have officially joined ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists and researchers. This collaboration enhances the visibility, accessibility, and impact of research published in Aging-US among the global scientific community.

17-Dec-2025

This genetic trick gives woodrats an evolutionary advantage against rattlesnake venom

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Woodrats weigh less than half a pound but can survive venomous rattlesnake bites that would hospitalize, or even kill, a full-grown human. 

Journal

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Funder

National Institutes of Health, University of Michigan's Honors Summer Fellowship

17-Dec-2025

In echo of Jurassic Park, mosquitoes capture entire ecosystems in their blood meals

University of Florida
Peer-Reviewed Publication

 A new study reveals that, within a small area in central Florida, mosquitoes fed on a whopping 86 different species of animals, capturing nearly all the vertebrate biodiversity in the area.

Journal

Scientific Reports

17-Dec-2025

New fossil study illuminates on the evolutionary success of frogs

University College Cork
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study lead by UCC palaeontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. Dr Daniel Falk, together with colleagues from UCC, Germany and the United States, studied 45-million-year-old frogs from the Geiseltal fossil site in central Germany. Remarkably, the fossils preserve skin remnants and layers of microscopic fossilised cell structures called melanosomes.

Journal

iScience

17-Dec-2025

New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute have found a way to overcome age-related immune system decline by temporarily programming cells in the liver to take over a critical immune system function: helping T cells mature. 

Journal

Nature

Funder

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center at MIT, Broad Institute Programmable Therapeutics Gift Donors, Pershing Square Foundation, The Phillips family, J. and P. Poitras, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship