We age for a reason, but as a result of a special biological program. But there is an African naked mole rat in the world, an animal that looks like a mouse and is incapable of aging. Scientists have figured out why humans age, but mole rats don'tThis article is the fourth in a small biological series about youth, aging, death, and genetic programs. Death for LifeIn case you are too lazy to read the previous three articles (1, 2 and 3) or in the constant turmoil of our lives you have...

There are animals that can be called evolutionary champions. They just turned off aging and can keep a young body for a lifetimeIn the previous two episodes of our bio-series, I tried to lead the reader to the idea that aging and the death that crowns it are not some random processes that occur due to the imperfection of the structure of our body, its wear and tear. In my opinion, it is more correct to consider them as the final stage of an individual's developmental program, laid down, like...

The biggest threat to humans is biological aging, that is, the slow decline of bodily functions, inexorably increasing the likelihood of death. There is every reason to believe that aging is the result of a genetic programIn the previous episode of my heartbreaking, I hope, series about love, death and the tyranny of the genome, I tried to draw the attention of dear readers to the fact that for all the greatness of Man and Humanity, you and I are nothing more than biological machines. Our...

Theoretically, living organisms can live for a very long time, almost forever. Where did such an unpleasant quality as death come from in living beings?We're all going to die. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, there are different points of view), life is arranged in such a way that we get this miracle complete with a very unpleasant obligatory addition – death. Some biologists believe that this was not always the case. Perhaps the first to doubt the "obligation" of death was the...