When I was a lad in medicine, the great debate was over "Nature vs. Nurture." We were taught the prevailing wisdom that there were aspects of our lives that were determined by our genetic code and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We tend to put many of our ailments down to our genetics. But new research suggest much of our diseases come from environmental ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

Salk scientists discover that different people can have distinct responses to the same infection depending on how their genetics and life experiences have shaped their immune cell function. The ...

A mother’s genetics may play a bigger role in determining whether a child becomes overweight than a father’s, as a result of a concept known as genetic nurture, finds a new study led by UCL ...

The debate about nature versus nurture goes back to humans’ earliest days of intellectual dispute. Classical Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle picked their sides on the causes of human behavior ...

Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic ...

A mother's genetics may play a bigger role in determining whether a child becomes overweight than a father's, as a result of a concept known as genetic nurture, finds a new study led by UCL ...