Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

Using a massive exome sequencing database made available through the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC), the international research team identified around 7.4 million genetic variants, providing ...

“Precision editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 are incredibly promising as therapies,” geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT tells The Scientist in an email. “They’re ...