In a recent study, a plant compound called luteolin prevented mice from developing gray hair. Here's what experts think of ...

A massive crossover of cultures and ethnicities often increases genetic variability as children inherit dominant traits from their parents. Each facial feature, skin color, and trait tells a story of ...

Occupational studies stretching back decades have found an increased risk of bladder cancer among hairdressers.

A 2023 study found that Ötzi, the famous ancient glacier mummy who lived 5,300 years ago before succumbing to a violent death ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire ...

A recent Trump executive order defines sex based on gamete size. But the order oversimplifies genetics, hormones and reproductive biology.

Your physical environment, social life and lifestyle have as much an influence on your biology − and hence, how you process drugs − as your genes.

A recent DNA study challenges long-held beliefs about the evolution of skin color in ancient Europeans, revealing that the majority may have had dark skin as recently as 3,000 years ago. Led by Guido ...

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone ... and education often exceed the influence of genetics on many of the features that define you.

Born in Belfast and raised in Spain, he has a rare condition called achromatopsia; he cannot perceive color. His antenna ... break down sugars instead? If human genetics were a tech company ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...