By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

A study published in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, destabilize the cancer genome. Unstable genomes are a fertile playground for cancer ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

In 1891, an estimated 282,000 old Irish Goats roamed the country. “This research is a huge milestone for the Old Irish Goat, ...

During a test drive, the mobile lab van uncovered a drug-resistant HIV strain that sprung up after the ongoing war with Russia started.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) can cause certain types of cancer or autoimmune diseases, but how the body controls this common ...

Hidden within cancer DNA data, researchers uncovered viruses and bacteria that may influence both diagnosis and survival.