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

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.

Putting aside the risk of an early grave by accident or injury, your genes may have a much greater impact on your lifespan ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study ...

When my middle school class read Tuck Everlasting, the novel about a girl who befriends a family who drank from a magical stream and gained eternal life, I was conflicted. The moral of the story was ...

A recent study published in Science challenged this trend, revising the estimate upward to about 50% by accounting for changes in external causes of death – such as accidents and infectious diseases – ...

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 ...

It’s a question that often comes up in health settings, but how much do genetics really impact your physical and mental health? “Almost every condition you can think of has some sort of genetic basis, ...

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

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...