What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

AlphaGenome is a DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction to understand genome function.

Machine learning holds great promise for classifying and identifying fossils, and has recently been marshaled to identify trackmakers of dinosaur ...

Understanding how trees respond to drought and climatic stress increasingly calls for close collaboration between experts in ...

ABSTRACT: Epigenetic mechanisms regulate and stabilize a broad range of biological processes without altering the primary DNA sequence. This regulation is achieved through DNA methylation, ...

Developing elite fruit cultivars typically requires long breeding cycles, especially in perennial woody species. This study uncovers how sexual reproduction of a fertile triploid loquat generates a ...

Summary: Using full genome sequencing data from more than 347,000 individuals, researchers quantified how much genetic differences explain human traits such as height, body mass index, fertility, and ...

Introduction: Despite their biogeographical relevance, the trait space exploited by endemic plants of Mediterranean forests remains largely unknown. Understanding their functional divergence from ...