A woman who trusted her gut and left a bachelorette party in Italy was proven right when the men her friends stayed with became threatening and aggressive.

Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post. Uri Alon was long puzzled by a textbook statistic: Longevity, the thinking went, was about 20 percent in our genes. “That makes you think what’s the rest of the 80 percent: Is it the lifestyle? Why should we study genes for lifespan if it’s not that important? It kind of bothered me,” said Alon, a physicist turned systems biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Alon us

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