Yifan Yang

The paper examines how subinhibitory concentrations of bacteriostatic and bactericidal antibiotics affect Escherichia coli growth dynamics, revealing distinct temporal responses between the two classes.

This paper estimates that the heritability of human lifespan is about 50% when accounting for extrinsic factors and cutoff age effects, challenging the consensus that genetics has a minor role in lifespan.

The paper presents a theory predicting which longevity interventions compress relative sickspan by steepening the survival curve, supported by evidence from mice, C. elegans, and Drosophila.

The paper measures damage dynamics in individual E. coli cells under carbon starvation and finds that stochastic noise amplification, not initial conditions, drives lifespan variation, with increasing determinism over time.