Scientists have uncovered surprising clues hidden deep in human DNA, and the findings are forcing experts to rethink a ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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

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 ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the surface of target cells, a molecular arms race that ...

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

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...