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

If you have had a cancer case in your family, know what are the chances of you being at risk of cancer.

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 – ...

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

People from the Outer Hebrides and north-west Ireland have the highest risk of developing a genetic disease that causes a dangerous build-up of iron in the body, a study published in the journal ...

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Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

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Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have mapped the prevalence of a genetic disease dubbed the Celtic Curse across ...

Centralized migration accelerates adaptation and drives parallel evolution, emphasizing the key influence of spatial organization on evolutionary dynamics across systems from pathogen transmission to ...