A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A landmark Nature study analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient and modern genomes from West Eurasia reveals that natural selection ...

New research shows human language evolved through ancient genetic systems that regulate genes, challenging the previous idea.

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...

Cancer cells excel at evading detection, but subtle chemical differences set them apart from healthy cells. Now, a team of ...

In a first-of-its-kind finding, researchers at University of Iowa Health Care discovered that specific genetic sequences have ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the ...

The abundance of viral DNA was measured in DNA sequenced from blood and saliva samples in biobanks, revealing strong correlations with age, sex and dozens of genetic variants. Genetic analyses ...