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

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

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A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later.

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Personalized Gene Editing Saves Baby in Record Time In early 2025, researchers successfully treated a baby boy with a rare, ...

How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for ...