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

A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over thousands of years in response to how people live and what they eat, according ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

The abundance of viral DNA was measured in DNA sequenced from blood and saliva samples in biobanks, revealing strong ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Using advanced analysis based ...