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

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

The past decade has delivered landmark advances in human and medical genomics that shape how we understand disease mechanisms ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

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 ...

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For the first time, researchers at King's College London and the University of Florence have identified the specific genetic ...

By studying genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, scientists have with unprecedented detail revealed why fewer than ...