Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

A comprehensive analysis of 173,303 genomes from Pakistan, published today in Nature, is upending how scientists understand ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle. In recent years, scientists studying human DNA identified genetic signals ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution's greatest achievement. For example, humans ...

By examining how the viruses interact with immune systems in both human and bat cells, researchers found that a single ...

The human microbiome is a complex ecosystem of microorganisms that inhabit the human body and have a crucial role in human health. Microbiome composition is shaped by its interaction with many factors ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in modern humans across the globe. Multiple interbreeding events with distinct ...

While remarkable and life-saving innovations in human genetics continue to make headlines worldwide, genetics professionals are now raising increasingly urgent warnings about how these advances are ...

(Edsel Querini/iStock/Getty Images) Over thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on ...

Horses have played a critical role in shaping human society, but scientists are still piecing together the story of their domestication. Reading time 3 minutes Roughly 4,500 years ago, humans forged a ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...