For decades, the “classical view” of genetics has hewn closely to the original work of Austro-Hungarian biologist Gregor Mendel, who developed his laws of inheritance in the mid-1880s. A new study ...

Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...

Ruth J. F. Loos is in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark. Read the paper: ...

Of all the millions of people who have tried weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound, nearly one in four people don’t respond to treatment. They lose little weight, or none at all, and see few ...

Scientists who analysed nearly 16,000 ancient remains suggest red hair and fair skin is favoured for vitamin D production People with red hair who have put up with teasing or “fiery” stereotypes may ...

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into ...