In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

Does drinking water after meals really slow digestion? Dr Manan Vora says the belief is largely a myth. He explains that moderate hydration does not dilute stomach acids and may actually support ...

Would a Universal Inheritance Improve American Lives ...

Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF. But the technology is dangerously ...

New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human lifespan, highlighting a major inherited component of longevity.

If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of ...

For decades, many scientists believed the input of genes and ancestry to longevity to be anything from around 10% to perhaps 25% – underestimations arising from limited historic health and death data.

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

That is to say, Marx’s atheism is a challenge to rise to the occasion of divinity, much like the civil rights movement challenged its activists. To sublate the old Feuerbachian projection of the ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...