With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still active in healthy people, according to new research my colleagues and I recently published.

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

When Neandertals were first discovered nearly 170 years ago, the conceptual gap between their lineage and that of modern humans seemed vast. Initially scientists prejudicially believed that the ...