A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the ...

Learn how newly discovered genetic regions may help explain Alzheimer’s risk, pointing to brain immune cells, neurons, and ...

Superagers -- adults 80 and older with the memory capacity of much younger people -- had a higher frequency of gene variants that protected against Alzheimer's disease and a lower frequency of genes ...

Hooray for the Morapians! I have no idea who they are, but they’ve helped make the effect of genes on politics much clearer. I just read an article that I really like for that very reason. The ...

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Genetics influences who of us are more likely to experience a relationship breakdown, and who are more likely to remain ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a key gene that may help explain why women are more likely than men to develop a certain type of artery plaque linked to heart disease. In a study published ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Churchgoers drink and smoke less than adults who spend their Sundays elsewhere but a U.S. study had found it may not be church attendance itself that explains this -- it ...

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French‑Canadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite ...

People who vape regularly show altered activity in 3,124 genes across the genome compared with people who do not smoke or ...