In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

KHQ.COM - Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

Google's new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will change the meaning of that sentence, the company says. — © AFP ...

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 ...

Until now, at least 14 different species have been assigned to the genus Homo since it emerged in Ethiopia some 2.8 million years ago, revealing branching evolutionary stories of survival, intermixing ...