Putting aside the risk of an early grave by accident or injury, your genes may have a much greater impact on your lifespan ...

A new study in the journal Science looked at decades of data on twins to estimate lifespan. When they did that, they found ...

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

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

The headline figure of lifespan being around “50% heritable” risks being misunderstood as meaning genes determine half of a ...

In the plant world, when two different species mate, their offspring often don't survive. The reason lies in their DNA: ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50% by accounting for ...

For years, the standard line in longevity research was that genes only nudged the odds of a long life while lifestyle and ...

Gene regulation is far more predictable than previously believed, scientists conclude after developing the deep learning ...

Corn bred with genes from wild relatives can reshape soil microbial communities and reduce nitrogen loss — with no yield ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease, affecting more than ...

Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently "switch off" ...