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

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

New research published in Scientific Reports provides evidence that the path from genetic predisposition to general ...

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 ...

DNA provides the foundational library of possibilities, but the environment serves as the librarian, choosing which books are ...

A test using a zebrafish model helped clinicians rule out SMA in two children, showing its potential use to clarify genetic ...

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 ...

Hackathons using AlphaGenome and other AI models are hunting down the genetic causes of devastating conditions that have ...

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

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