A new study of two-million-year-old tooth enamel has revealed surprising genetic diversity in Paranthropus robustus, a distant upright-walking relative of early humans. Using paleoproteomics—the ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

A genetically diverse mouse model allowed researchers to identify genes that promote the success of immune checkpoint ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

CRISPR-based gene editing holds great promise, but off-target effects remain a major concern, especially across diverse ...

Genome editing technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 have transformed biology, medicine, and agriculture, but concerns remain about ...

University of Buffalo researchers conducted a systematic analysis of switch-like genes by analyzing genomes, transcriptomes ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...