The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the surface of target cells, a molecular arms race that ...

For many scientists, the first glimpse of a DNA sequence—those colored peaks marking A, T, C, and G—sparked a lifelong fascination with the code that shapes us all. That same spirit of discovery ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

Officially unveiled at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 meeting held in Boston, Genomics has launched Mystra, an AI-enabled human genetics platform designed to accelerate drug target ...

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over thousands of years in response to how people live and what they eat, according ...