Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

New genetic research is overturning decades of accepted beliefs about where Guam’s ancient CHamoru people came from, ...

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 6,000-year-old human skeletons in Colombia that possess a DNA ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled.

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their cells into tiny factories that churn out a protein that is essentially the ...

Researchers at a Harvard Medical School laboratory are uncertain how they will continue supporting a large public genetic database after its primary source of funding expired last month.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...