A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common ...

A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis—inflammation of the heart muscle—at higher risk ...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped ...

Neanderthals were genetically predisposed to be early birds, and they may have passed on those genes to some humans living today, new research found. Reading time 3 minutes If you’re irritated by the ...

Hooray for the Morapians! I have no idea who they are, but they’ve helped make the effect of genes on politics much clearer. I just read an article that I really like for that very reason. The ...

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"Many of the risk factors for atherosclerosis are well known: high cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose, smoking, and diabetes," said Gregory S. Thomas, M.D., MPH, medical director emeritus, ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...