Livia Gerber

Indeed, we don’t know if social bonds promote healthy ageing or if healthy animals have more energy to invest in social bonds. We discuss both options in the second last paragraph of our results and hope future research will be able to unravel this!

Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins Communications Biology - Across 40 years of behavioural and epigenetic data, male dolphins with stronger social relationships show lower epigenetic ages and therefore appear to age slower compared...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com: Social bonds decrease epigenetic age in male bottlenose dolphins rdcu.be/eUoID led by @liviagerber.bsky.social @researchdolphin.bsky.social

DNA extraction from dried blood stored on paper cards Scientists often store blood samples on special chemically-treated paper cards that preserve DNA for years without refrigeration. However, existing methods for extracting DNA from these cards do not w...

We have developed a new method to extract DNA from FTA cards - it even permits epigenetic analyses:
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