For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical twins—those born with the same genetic blueprint—have long been the perfect ...

New research from Bayes Business School (City St George's, University of London) has revealed that work-related stress ...

Music is central to human emotion and culture. Does our ability to enjoy music have a biological basis? A genetic twin study, published in Nature Communications, shows that music enjoyment is partly ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, ...

New research from University of Virginia psychologists found that “epigenetic clocks” – tools scientists use to estimate a person’s biological age – can predict cognitive decline. The study, which ...

A new study on identical twins published on Sunday in the journal BMC Medicine found that eating a vegan diet for 8 weeks was linked to lower biological age measured by DNA methylation, compared to ...

The information gathered from the study of twins lays the groundwork for future genetic research, including the degree to which any aspects of life are determined by genetics, the location of specific ...