Hungry for a Longer Life?

For a longer life, cut the cheese? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… ask mice! Andrea Di Francesco and team at Calico and Jackson Labs did just that. They followed nearly a thousand mice on different diets. Some fasted, some cut calories, and some ate

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Life’s Numts and Bolts

Talk about life’s NUMTS and bolts! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Mitochondria – your body’s energy supplier – has a side hustle: inserting their D-N-A into your brain! Should we be afraid?! Enter the Mills team at the University of Michigan. They examined little

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Rockin’ Rockfish

Life will be AWESOME in – oh, two hundred years…?!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… Flying cars, teleportation machines, negative-calorie desserts … too bad I won’t be around to see it! But if I were a rockfish? No problem! Some live for twenty

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Rockin’ Rockfish

Life will be AWESOME in – oh, two hundred years…?!  This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… Flying cars, teleportation machines, negative-calorie desserts … too bad I won’t be around to see it! But if I were a rockfish? No problem! Some live for twenty

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Deadly Donuts

Donuts, mayonnaise, gin – worst martini ever? Or just the most unhealthy? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Breakfast on the fly? Croissan-wich and coffee. For lunch? Pizza and a coke. Hey, it’s not the most nutritious diet, but what’s the worst that could happen?

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Wise Old Tortoise

The secret to a long, healthy life? Ask a tortoise! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Lonesome George was a tortoise who passed away in twenty twelve — at a SPRY one hundred years old. Seriously, one hundred is young for a tortoise! Some have

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