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

A new analysis suggests that genes play a much larger role in human longevity than previously believed. But lifestyle factors ...

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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 Thursday in the journal Science ...

Research suggested that only 10 to 25% of how long we live is determined by our genes and the rest to lifestyle, environment, ...

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

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been masked. A genetic contribution of 55% aligns far more closely with what has ...

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