Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

Across almost every country on Earth, women can expect to live several years longer than men, a gap that has stubbornly ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

A large global genetics study shows that many key drivers of Type 2 diabetes operate outside the bloodstream. Scientists are ...

Miscarriage is often framed as a sudden, inexplicable loss that strikes in the first weeks of a wanted pregnancy. Yet a growing body of research suggests that some of the deepest roots of pregnancy ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been ...

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

Fulgent Genetics' diagnostics business is growing, with 15.4% revenue growth YTD and all segments contributing. Read why I ...

A couple with deep ties to the Chicago area is donating $11 million to Lurie Children’s Hospital in hopes of speeding research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.