The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

A study of 470,000 people reveals that the APOE gene could be behind 90% of Alzheimer's cases in the world today.

Most people of non-African ancestry carry about 2% Neanderthal DNA, and researchers report a mirror image pattern with more human DNA on the Neanderthal X chromosome.

Scientists in China achieve the first successful liver support therapy using ex vivo perfusion and a gene-edited pig.

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the ...

New genetic research suggests a common Southeast Asian frog long believed to be one species could actually be six or seven distinct ones.

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In ...

The Echimamish River in Manitoba is a rare natural phenomenon, flowing in two directions from a central pond to link the ...