Gallrein, C., Meyer, D.H., Woitzat, Y...Björn Schumacher, Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions. Nat Aging (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-026-01067-5

Paulo F. L. da Silva, Baptiste Ropert, Matthias Rieckher, Corvin Rive, Björn Schumacher, (2026) Neuronal DNA repair mediates systemic mitochondrial maintenance through acetylcholine signaling, bioRxiv 2026.02.11.705232; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.11.705232

Gallrein, C., Meyer, D.H., Woitzat, Y… Bjorn Schumacher. Aging clocks delineate neuron types vulnerable or resilient to neurodegeneration and identify neuroprotective interventions. Nat Aging (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-026-01067-5

M.L. Power, R.D. Ransome, L. Romaine, G. Jones, & E.C. Teeling, Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.122 (50) e2515125122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2515125122(2025).

Leon Hilgers, Michael Hiller (2025), Linking phenotype to genotype using comprehensive genomic comparisons. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. Volume 94, October 2025, 102384.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2025.102384

Meyer, D.H., Maklakov, A.A. & Schumacher, B. Aging by the clock and yet without a program. Nat Aging 5, 1946–1956 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00975-2

Bujarrabal-Dueso A, Garinis GA, Robbins PD, Vijg J, Schumacher B.(2025) Targeting DNA damage in ageing: towards supercharging DNA repair. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2025 Jun 12. doi: 10.1038/s41573-025-01212-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40506534.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40506534/  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-025-01212-6

Khrystyna Totska, João C. V. V. Barata, Walter Sandt, David H. Meyer, Björn Schumacher (2025) Age deceleration and reversal gene patterns in dauer diapause. bioRxiv 2025.04.14.648662; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.14.648662

Braun F, Mandel AM, Blomberg L, Wong MN, Chatzinikolaou G, Meyer DH, Reinelt A, Nair V, Akbar-Haase R, McCown PJ, Haas F, Chen H, Rahmatollahi M, Fermin D, Ebbestad R, Slaats GG, Bork T, Schell C, Koehler S, Brinkkoetter PT, Lindenmeyer MT, Cohen CD, Kann M, Unnersjö-Jess D, Bloch W, Sampson MG, Dollé ME, Puelles VG, Kretzler M, Garinis GA, Huber TB, Schermer B, Benzing T, Schumacher B, Kurschat CE. (2025) Loss of genome maintenance is linked to mTOR complex 1 signaling and accelerates podocyte damage. JCI Insight. 2025 May 20;10(12):e172370. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.172370. PMID: 40392611; PMCID: PMC12220965.

Riquier, S., Carthy, S., Hughes, G.M.,… Teeling, E.C., (2025) RNA-Seq analysis reveals the long noncoding RNAs associated with immunity in wild Myotis myotis bats. BMC Genomics 26, 345 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11485-1

Shoma, I and Schumacher B. (2025) The Somatic Impact on Inheritance and the Germline Control of the Soma. Annual Review of Genetics https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genet-020325-040022

Alcock, D., Power, S., Hogg, B., Sacchi, C., Kacprzyk, J., McLoughlin, S., Bertelsen, M. F., Fletcher, N.F., O’Riain, A., & Teeling, E.C., (2024) Generating bat primary and immortalised cell-lines from wing biopsies. Sci Rep 14, 27633.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76790-3

Talay, A., Belikov, A.V., … Teeling, E.,…et al. (2025) Open problems in ageing science: a roadmap for biogerontology. GeroScience  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01964-4

Meyer DH, Schumacher B. (2025) The stochasticity of biological aging. Nature Medicine. 2025 Apr 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03687-7. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40301558.

Morales, A.E., Dong, Y., Brown, T., … Teeling, E. C., Banerjecc, A., Irving, A.T., & Hiller, M., (2025) Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance. Nature 638, 449–458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08471-0

Jacques E, Herzog C, Ying K, … Schumacher B, Justice JN, Woods T, Gobel D, Perez VI, Sinclair DA, Maier AB, Barzilai N, Snyder MP, Wyss-Coray T, Horvath S, Ferrucci L, Poganik JR, Moqri M, Gladyshev VN. (2025) Invigorating discovery and clinical translation of aging biomarkers. Nat Aging. 2025 Apr;5(4):539-543. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-00838-w. PMID: 40164770

Lyu YX , Fu Q, Wilczok D, Ying K, … Schumacher B, Zhavoronkov A, Scheibye-Knudsen M, Bakula D. (2024) Longevity biotechnology: bridging AI, biomarkers, geroscience and clinical applications for healthy longevity. Aging (Albany NY). 2024 Oct 16:16. https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.206135. PMID: 39418098

Schumacher B, (2017) The Mystery of Human Aging: The Surprising Insights of a Science That’s Still Young. Algora Publishing, https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Mystery-Human-Aging-Anti-Aging-Innovations/dp/1628942827