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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a crucial piece in the puzzle of how all animals with a spine—including all mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians—evolved. In a paper ...