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

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 ...

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

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

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 ...

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

The monogamy rate in humans may be higher than you expected... but we do it in a strange way compared to other animals.

Around 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

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 ...

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