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

A new study finds tiny Neanderthal DNA differences shaped their powerful jaws, revealing how small genetic changes influence ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

After 10 years, members of the 4D Nucleome consortium have successfully completed the first phase of a project that aims to ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

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

British scientist says humans could live 20,000 years through DNA reprogramming and cellular repair technology that ...

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

Researchers have developed a new method for human identification, which could be a powerful new tool for forensic ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

ALBERT LEA, Minn. – Freeborn County authorities say skeletal remains found along Interstate 90 in 2015 have been identified ...