New DNA Study Links Human's Low Pain Tolerance to Ancient Genetic Roots ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, ...

Testing the biological sex of an athlete is becoming more common in sport, with governing bodies defending the practice as ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...