Expectant parents at the Jessop Wing in Sheffield are invited to take part in the Generation Study.

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

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

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

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.

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. By analyzing bowel movement frequency in more than 268,000 people, researchers uncover how thiamine ...

Some seniors may carry a protective gene that keeps their minds decades younger.

Numerous genetic studies have identified many risk variants for type 2 diabetes (T2D)—but which genes and proteins are ...

According to a statement released by the University of Vienna, an international team of researchers has identified a rare ...

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