Scientists cannot reliably predict whether an individual carrying certain gene variants will eventually end up obese. Put ...

The underlying causes of obesity can vary between people and typically involve a mix of both genetic and environmental factors. Obesity is a chronic health condition defined as the accumulation of ...

Research linked to Harvard University and Harvard Medical School suggests that redheaded women possess unique genetic and ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...