Genetic factors account for much of the variation in personality traits across the lifespan. Shared upbringing plays a ...

Researchers identified a specific gene that influences how old we appear, shedding new light on aging beyond lifestyle and sun exposure.

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a ...

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor who unknowingly carried a rare genetic ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...