In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge ...

New genetic research is shedding light on some of the earliest chapters of our human history. In one of the largest studies of its kind, scientists analysed DNA from 28 individuals who lived in ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

Extinction rates today are much higher than would be expected due to natural background rates, a situation thought to be a result of increasing human driven environmental pressures such as ...

Each person’s genetic code harbors millions of variants that differ from one individual to the next, and account for differences in health and disease risk. The more human genomes are sequenced, the ...

Project Psyche has sequenced 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes, providing unprecedented tools for studying evolution, ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

For more than a decade, doctors have been trying to figure out what’s behind the weakness and fatigue that caused 11-year-old Adam Foye to miss 60 days of school last year. His symptoms match up with ...