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

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

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

The genes you inherit play a bigger role in determining your lifespan than previously thought, according to a new study.

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...