Weizmann Institute study finds genetics may account for about 50 percent of human lifespan, more than double previous estimates.

Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future ...

A great part of living in the 21st century is that if you have a device that connects to the internet, you have access to hundreds, if not thousands of experts who are often eager to share in-depth ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

In most plants and animals, including humans, mitochondria are inherited exclusively, or nearly exclusively, from the mother.