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

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, ...

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.

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, ...

About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

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

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

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...