A study of 470,000 people reveals that the APOE gene could be behind 90% of Alzheimer's cases in the world today.

Scientists found that muscles store a chemical record of past inactivity that gets significantly worse with age.

Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene expression. Scientists have now developed a way to silence that cellular noise, ...

Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that the Y has little biological importance beyond sex determination.

In the most complete tally yet, scientists have identified nearly 1,500 genes that are connected to how we age ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

Recent research suggests genes play a bigger role in longevity than previously thought. But your lifestyle choices still matter a huge amount.

Gene therapy has been successfully used to treat a number of diseases, including immune deficiencies, hereditary blindness, ...

Resistance to cognitive decline, therefore, seemed another benefit of long-term transcendental meditation practice.

Neurons placed inside engineered living bodies built from frog cells self-organize, become active, and reshape movement ...