How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been ...

The Life Sciences Graduate Recruitment Symposium connected undergraduate and master’s students with graduate pathways ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...