A new study on aortic stenosis, the most common form of heart valve disease, has identified more than 200 new genes that predispose individuals to this condition, for which no treatment currently ...

New twin research suggests genes may account for more than half of human lifespan, but experts emphasize that lifestyle ...

The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...

How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that our genes may play a much larger role in our expiration date than we ever imagined.

People are twice as likely to inherit their lifespan than was previously thought, according to a team of researchers led by ...

Hair genetics can come from either parent, and multiple genes can determine hair traits, such as color, texture, and growth. Genes can also affect hair loss. Although it can run in families, this is ...

Shaped by fads and one-size-fits-all approaches, current dietary practices rely on the idea that everyone needs the same food to achieve similar results, an idea challenged by new research from the ...

In addition, KFSH has documented close to 3,000 variants specific to Arab populations, 34% of which are not represented in the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD), thereby strengthening the ...

Arun Durvasula has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Science. Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she told me, “Genetics ...