By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

“Our analyses show that the historical [human Rhinovirus] A genome represents an extinct lineage closely related to HRV A19 ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

On 16 February, the Paranymph Hall of the University of Barcelona's Historic Building hosted the opening ceremony of the ...

The human lymphatic system is notoriously difficult to map due to its size and variability among individuals. Spatial ...

Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in people with colorectal cancer.

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.