A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

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 ...

The figure is quite simple to rejoice: at present, the average life expectancy of a baby born in the United States in 2024 is 79 years. The more difficult thing is what that milestone will demand next ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...

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New research suggests that getting even just a few more minutes of sleep and exercise and eating an extra cup of vegetables every day can significantly boost longevity ...

Regularly engaging in a variety of physical activities such as walking, cycling, and swimming, may be the best way to prolong ...

“There’s a lot of increasing evidence that depriving ourselves of sleep has long-term consequences,” Whitson said. These ...