Research in the Traniello Lab on the neurobiology of senescence in social animals has received wide media attention, including articles on “Why ants don’t get Alzheimer’s” published in Discover Magazine, the Smithsonian Magazine and Der Spiegel, as well coverage on BU Today and many other science news outlets. Prof. Traniello was also interviewed on the research for a science broadcast on Danish radio. The study, published in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B, found that behavioral performance did not decline in Pheidole dentata minor worker ants over the majority of their 140-day lifespan, and that cell death in the brain did not increase with age while levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine rose rather than declined in “elderly” ants.