A new study in the journal Science looked at decades of data on twins to estimate lifespan. When they did that, they found ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...

New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

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

Earlier studies have estimated that life span may be 15-33 per cent heritable across varied populations, with a typical range ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into ...

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

Science has shown that variations in our genes can have a major impact on our health and lifespan. But so can diet and exercise habits. Scientists wanted to learn more about exactly how much lifestyle ...

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

A mother’s genes could play a role in determining a child’s future weight – more so than a father’s. To make the comparison, researchers used genetic and health data of 2,621 UK families in the ...

How much an infant cries is largely steered by their genetics, and there is probably not much that parents can do about it. This has been shown in a new Swedish twin study from Uppsala University and ...