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About 55% of the human lifespan is heritable, meaning that more than half of the observed variation in longevity across a ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA ...

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Despite major advances in genetic testing for breast cancer risk prediction, death rates remain disproportionately high among ...