The absence of African DNA in the global genome map is hampering progress in treating conditions like sickle cell anaemia ...

Check the Ancestry app! Cheryl Butler-Brayboy stopped short in her tracks on her way to bed one evening when those words ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black ...

Dr. Gina Paige, co-founder of African Ancestry, is giving African Americans the pathway to connect further with their ...

A D.C. murder case set for trial this week was suddenly dismissed last Friday as prosecutors told the family they lost faith in DNA evidence linking a suspect to the 2010 killing of a father at a ...

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WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National African American Museum of History and Culture a few ...

This population had been long isolated from other groups. DNA analysis of two naturally mummified individuals from Libya, dating back over 7,000 years to the African Humid Period (also known as the ...

The Old Crow mammoth's DNA was in the oldest group of samples in the analysis, described as "deep-time DNA," but it wasn't the oldest. The oldest DNA, from Russia, was around 1.3 million years old.