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Lethal conflict after group fission in wild chimpanzees

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Science, Volume 392, Issue 6794, Page 216-220, April 2026.
Aaron A. Sandel, Yixuan He, Junpeng Ren, Yik Lun Kei, Kevin C. Lee, Isabelle R. Clark, Rachna B. Reddy, Jacob D. Negrey, Charles Birungi, Blessing A. Apamaku, Diana Kanweri, Davis Kalunga, Christopher Aliganyira, Sebastián Ramírez-Amaya, Phionah Nakayima…

Many-body interferometry with semiconductor spins

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Science, Volume 392, Issue 6794, Page 183-187, April 2026.
D. Jirovec, S. Reale, P. Cova Fariña, C. Ventura-Meinersen, M. P. Nguyen, X. Zhang, S. D. Oosterhout, G. Scapucci, M. Veldhorst, M. Rimbach-Russ, S. Bosco, L. M. K. Vandersypen

Vitamin C slows primate aging by targeting iron-driven lipid peroxidation

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Aging has long been associated with oxidative stress, yet its underlying metabolic drivers remain unclear. Liu et al. identify a conserved, iron-driven lipid peroxidation of primate aging mediated by ACSL4 and demonstrate that vitamin C directly suppresses this process, offering a translatable strategy to mitigate age-associated functional decline.
Pei-Long Yu

Polyunsaturated lipids kill senescent cells by ferroptosis

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In a recent Cell Press Blue paper, Zhang et al. identify two polyunsaturated lipids that selectively eliminate senescent cells by inducing ferroptosis, uncovering this iron-dependent cell death pathway as a vulnerability for senescent cells. Their findings position ferroptosis induction as a promising strategy for targeting senescence and aging-associated diseases.
Mariantonietta D'Ambrosio

Cell loss disrupts mechanical homeostasis to drive retinal pigment epithelium ageing-like phenotype in vitro

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Tissue homeostasis emerges from mechanical feedback loops balanced by cell loss and proliferation, a balance that in postmitotic tissues must be maintained without compensatory proliferation. Yet how these tissues preserve mechanical homeostasis and how this challenges function in ageing remains unclear. To establish the relationship between cell density, mechanical homeostasis, and function, we induced age-mimicking cell loss in a postmitotic retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in vitro. This...
Teodora Piskova

Cytokine multimerization: when more is more and sometimes less

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Cytokines are essential mediators of immune functions and regulate many other biological processes, ranging from fetal development to ageing. Dysregulation of cytokine responses can substantially increase the risk of disease and so their activity requires tight control. The formation of cytokine homodimers, heterodimers and multimers has evolved as a versatile mechanism to regulate cytokine biology, in which multimerization can enable or attenuate their activity, diversify signalling outcomes...
Ina Rudloff

Impact of miR-181a-5p and miR-1249-3p treatment on the visceral adipose tissue transcriptome of female mice

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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression and can influence processes such as inflammation, metabolism, and aging. This study assessed the effects of miR-181a-5p and miR-1249-3p mimics on the transcriptome of visceral adipose tissue in middle-aged females mice. Mice received intraperitoneal injections of either miR-181a-5p, miR-1249-3p, or vehicle control, followed by transcriptomic and metabolic analyses. Both treatments significantly reduced fasting blood glucose levels and promoted...
Driele N Garcia

Oocyte aging in focus: Environmental and endogenous stressors driving reproductive potential decline

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Oocyte quality, a critical determinant of female reproductive potential, experiences a progressive decline with age, largely driven by the cumulative effects of oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. This review thoroughly synthesizes the latest evidence concerning the molecular, cellular, and environmental factors that disrupt redox homeostasis within oocytes. It particularly highlights the pivotal roles of reactive oxygen species, impaired mitochondrial metabolism, epigenetic...
Katarzyna Ratajewska