Questions about lifespan, DNA, and whether it's down to choice, environment, or pure chance have been and will continue to be asked.

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Large genetic study links telomere-related polygenic risk to distinct idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis subgroups, improving ...

A groundbreaking study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has challenged conventional understanding of ...

Beluga whales can disappear beneath Arctic sea ice for long stretches, which makes them far tougher to follow than many other whale species. That is why researchers have increasingly turned to ...

London: Scientists think they may have unlocked a key secret to long life – quite simply, genetics, according to The Guardian ...

Most Calico cats are female due to genetics. The orange-and-black color combination is linked to the X chromosome, which ...

Actor turned rare disease advocate Luke Rosen tells how his daughter, Susannah, lives with a KIF1A-associated neurological ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutations and variants that is ...

Lifespan may be up to 55% heritable, according to new research.

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...