Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...
A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...
A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...
Scientists have discovered traces of a genetic signature associated with Indigenous Australasians dating from China’s Tang ...
The skin over a fresh wound might not look like much. In some animals, though, that thin covering becomes command central for ...
Genomic data provides evidence for a previously unknown wave of migration, with Indigenous groups living in central and ...
Gene editing has emerged as a powerful approach for targeting the genetic causes of disease, but getting the editing ...
An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.
New research could help millions of people who have lost limbs to disease and infections.
A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder. Unlike earlier ...
Investigating a common gene in three very different species—salamanders, mice and zebrafish—scientists have discovered the ...