Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why ...

Ruth J. F. Loos is in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark. Read the paper: ...

Of all the millions of people who have tried weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound, nearly one in four people don’t respond to treatment. They lose little weight, or none at all, and see few ...

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into ...

Since the landmark discovery that a bacterial defense mechanism could be repurposed into programmable “molecular scissors,” CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology has undergone a major evolution. Over ...