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

Scientists have long believed that longevity is shaped by lifestyle choices; however, a new study reveals that genes may play a larger role in determining how long people live.

A Google DeepMind invention that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict how DNA mutations behave could have a ...

The disease leads to the progressive growth of fluid-filled cysts in the kidneys, often resulting in kidney failure and other ...

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

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

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

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...

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

University of California San Diego-led team has discovered that restoring a key cardiac protein called connexin‑43 in a mouse ...

Researchers identified the earliest case of a genetic disease with the help of DNA: ...