The actual number comes down to different biological and physiological development factors. Some of these include: chronological age genetics (for example, how quickly your body’s antioxidant ...

Some surprising biological factors may also play a role in pain tolerance. For example, recent research shows that one side of your body may experience pain differently than the other side.

They also used four other tools to estimate biological age based on DNA methylation ... Takyrbashev pointed to exercise as one example of a factor that can induce positive changes in DNA ...

Share on Pinterest Scientists have quantified the impact certain lifestyle factors have on biological aging. Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images Researchers are still working to ...

Homozygous, or homozygosity, refers to the inheritance of genes from each biological ... This article examines examples of homozygous gene variants and their risk factors. We also look at how ...

Chronic pain conditions, long-lasting medical conditions characterized by persistent pain in specific areas of the body, are ...

What causes someone to lead or decide, instead, to give up? In this area of SPNIL’s research, we examine the biology that drives people to succeed. In particular, we focus on testosterone’s causal ...

The researchers demonstrated that psychological factors, such as feeling unhappy or being lonely, add up to 1.65 years to one's biological age, and the aggregate effect exceeds the effects of ...

To better understand what biological factors might be at play when it comes to the development of eating disorders, the research team used data from the National Institutes of Health’s Adolescent ...

“Sex differences in biological factors (eg, sex hormones), health factors (eg, cardiovascular risk) and social factors (eg, education levels) are hypothesized to contribute to sex differences in ...