The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published ...

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

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been masked. A genetic contribution of 55% aligns far more closely with what has ...

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

Longevity, the authors estimated, was about 25 percent heritable, meaning the remaining three quarters was determined by ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into ...

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.