Every four years, the world turns its attention to the Olympics to see competitors go "faster, higher, stronger." We tend to take this trajectory for granted, and average human height and life ...

Besides large efforts regarding field work, provision of valid databases requires statistical and informational infrastructure to enable long-term access to ...

A man with a beard and a black t-shirt measures his height with a tape measure. Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult.

Runners crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge shortly after the start of the New York City Marathon on November 5. Runners crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge shortly after the start of the New York ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - It's no secret that if your dad is tall and your mother is tall, you are probably going to be tall. But fully understanding the genetics of height has been a big order ...

“There are about 700 variants known to affect height, each of them usually with a pretty small effect . . . usually like a millimeter or less,” Joel Hirschhorn, a geneticist at Boston Children’s ...

In a study of mouse and human genes, scientists pinpointed 145 genes that regulate the cartilage cells in kid's growth plates and could determine how tall they grow. When you purchase through links on ...