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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How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for ...

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 ...

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

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

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