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

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 ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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

“The important part of the work is the large number of [exomes],” Stephen Scherer, who studies variation in the human genome at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Canada, ...