For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Uncovering India's genetic richness through comprehensive genomic mapping reveals unique ancestry and health implications for ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

Paraphase – a computational tool that accurately resolves and analyzes paralogous genes – unlocks the difficult-to-analyze ...

The first draft of the human genome – our genetic blueprint – was published on 26 June, 2000. It had taken 10 years to ...