I was very privileged to have spent my first post-doctoral years associated with the Minnesota study of Twins Reared Apart, directed by University of Minnesota professor Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

Shocking images of identical twins who live very different lives, reveal the damaging effects smoking, bad diet, divorce and sun can have on our faces. Researchers looked at 186 sibling pairs to see ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to ...