The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has selected for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV in humans, ...
Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...
Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are ...
Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
A new Nature study suggests DNA mutations in immune cells may drive autoimmune diseases by removing immune system brakes, ...
Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...
Beneath the hills of Gyeongsan, in southeastern South Korea, archaeologists have spent more than four decades excavating a ...
Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...
A new study suggests that a single blood sample could soon detect multiple cancers, including liver, stomach, and lung cancer ...