A new study from Oxford Population Health has revealed that lifestyle choices and environmental factors have a much bigger ...

Exclusive: A world-first Australian study could pave the way for all couples to have free genetic screening before starting a ...

Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...

It turns out genetics might not play as big of a role in how long you live as previously thought.

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Factors like your income and how much sleep you get are more predictive of how long you'll live than genes, an Oxford study ...

Environmental and lifestyle factors play a far greater role than genetics in determining the likelihood of dying young, according to the largest study yet to untangle the contributions of nature ...

How where you live, what you eat, and which friends you keep affect how you age is the focus of a new study from The ...

Obesity is on the rise not just in humans but in dogs, whose history of selective breeding makes them an ideal species for ...

A gene linked to obesity in Labradors is the same one found in humans, scientists say. The discovery could help researchers ...