"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason Hodgson.

DNA’s iconic double helix has long been the symbol of life’s blueprint. However, the human genome conceals far more ...

The legacy of our ancient human relatives, "brain-eating-amoeba" infections, emerging viral threats, the promise and peril of ...

A collaborative effort by experts from, Genentech, and the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative aims to leverage artificial ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

The researchers employed coalescence analyses, mutation rate estimates, and examination of archaic admixture signatures to ...

How do lice tolerate this genome structure that in humans and many other animals would result in major neurodegenerative problems? Lice live their entire lives with a set of genes that in humans ...

Angry campaigners have asked the United Nations to investigate a human rights breach over a lack of maternity and health services in the Highlands. Patients in the north of Scotland are having to ...

The study authors found the shark’s genome to be extraordinarily large, twice as long as a human’s and bigger than any other shark genome sequenced to date. The researchers are analyzing the ...

Capsid protein aggregation proceeded slowly following the genome’s full evacuation. This phenomenon may happen because capsid proteins bind to the ejected DNA, which has a strong negative charge ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana Department of Health has reported the first human case of bird flu (H5N1) in a person in the state. A person from southwestern Louisiana is ...