Can yoga bridge the gap between the fortunate and the less fortunate? Founders of Australian yoga charities discuss what selfless service truly means.

A new study finds that genetics plays a key role in what people choose to see in their environment.

Patients who lost their vision due to a retinal degenerative disease will soon be able to see with a new gene therapy treatment.

Scientists discover a gene outside the brain which controls the ability to recover from sleep deprivation.

Mind-body interventions like yoga, tai chi and meditation reverse the molecular reactions in our DNA which causes ill-health and depression.

A new study finds seven risk genes responsible for insomnia.

Religious people are more likely to oppose reproductive genetic technologies.

Researcher have concluded that genetics plays an important role in muscle strength and damage when running marathons.

An anticancer drug can regenerate damaged heart tissue according to new research.

Your diet can affect how your genes are expressed and in turn your genetic makeup determines how you respond to food.

There was a time when we spoke of genetics as something fixed and immutable; “Oh, I can’t help my tendency to wear inappropriately tight clothing, my mum did it too, it’s in my genes.” There was a sense that genes were destiny and that nothing could alter them but now we know that your DNA […]

Are you a coffee drinker? In a world that has a million lines of demarcation and separation coffee drinking divides us neatly down the middle; you are either a coffee drinker or you are not (and neither camp really understands the other). Within the coffee drinking fraternity of course, there are further shades of grey […]