A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History analyzed more than 2,700 genomes of dogs, wolves, and other canids from ...

Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk.

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic ...

A Xhosa woman’s viral TikTok about her DNA test sparks major interest, inspiring South Africans to explore their heritage and ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

A simple MyHeritage DNA kit sent TalkTV host Peter Cardwell on an emotional path of discovery, unearthing centuries of ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...