Genetic records from more than 20,000 children in the United States, collected to understand how young brains grow and how ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

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

A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors ...

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

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

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

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later.

How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for ...

Did Richard III actually have a hunchback? Was Adolf Hitler really Jewish? For years, these ideas have persisted. Now, thanks to the work of geneticist Professor Turi King, Director of the Milner ...