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Is There a ‘Mommy’ Gene?

Rory Delaney is a three-year-old who has not been out of diapers that long, but she already knows something about changing them. Her sister, Saorise, is a five-year-old kindergarten student who already knows what she wants to be when she grows up, a mom. Now, researchers at Rockefeller University say the inclination that both Rory [...]

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Study: Children Of Older Fathers May Live Longer

The children and grandchildren of men who reproduced later in life could enjoy life-extending genetic benefits, including being able to father children at an older age, a new study suggests. Researchers at Northwestern University believe the process represents an unusually rapid evolutionary adaptation in which telomeres — DNA found at the ends of chromosomes — [...]