Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...

Over 200 visitors interacted with each other over themes of drug resistant tuberculosis, extra-pulmonary TB and developments ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked the earth before being overshadowed by modern humans. These ancient ...

A groundbreaking pangenomic study has revealed a major DNA flip that appears to have made the small bird resistant to certain diseases. "Traditionally people study the genetic variation in a ...

stated that if Neanderthal women mated with Homo sapiens or Denisovan men, there was a high risk of newborns having neonatal hemolytic disease, which can have severe consequences, including ...

Transcription factors are proteins that can bind to DNA and affect the expression of genes ... This research opens the door to future work that can analyze how variations in the sequences of these ...

they carried genetic traits that helped them survive in unfamiliar climates and resist local diseases. In contrast, Neanderthals, who had lived in Eurasia for much longer, retained older and less ...

In 2022, more than 941,600 Americans died from cardiovascular disease. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report. The American Heart ...

They also identified numerous inconsistencies between models and studies identifying hybridization events between Neanderthals and sapiens. For example, some models predict much higher or lower levels ...

This process of discovery has increased significantly since we learnt that some humans have Neanderthal DNA, a genetic fingerprint left behind when ancient humans intermixed with this now-extinct ...