21 September 2022
Your genes and environment play a big part in forming you, but there is an unexplored third element at play too: luck. The chance events that shape your brain in the womb may influence who you become as much as your genetics, and perhaps even more than...
28 March 2022
Stress-linked changes in the activity of genes may be why Black people in the US often have worse chronic pain than white people
17 February 2021
Curiosity about how well our bodies are ageing has fuelled an industry around telomere length tests, but the much touted “biological clock” in our DNA isn’t what we thought
20 January 2021
Lack of diversity in genome studies means that treatments derived from them are leaving people of colour behind. Changing that isn’t only about justice – it could also lead to new therapies that would otherwise go undiscovered
29 July 2020
We know that women live longer and are less susceptible to certain diseases than men. That may be down to the benefits of having two X chromosomes
18 February 2020
Gene-edited pigs and brain implants are blurring the lines of what it means to be human, so our morals and laws may need to change to include beings that are “substantially human”
12 December 2019
Geneticist Robert Plomin makes the case that DNA is more important than upbringing to a child’s personality, exam results and future income
12 December 2019
Rowan Hooper asks special guests what it feels like to be exceptional. And what does it take to get there?
11 December 2019
How much of our make-up is predetermined by our genes, and how much by our environment? The truth is that we're asking entirely the wrong question
2 December 2019
Any differences in the brains of males and females are not the result of a fixed biological blueprint, says neuroscientist Gina Rippon
