Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

The human genome of West Eurasia has been far more affected by natural selection in the last 10,000 years than previously ...

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA ...

The human gastrointestinal tract is in a constant state of flux; it hosts a diverse and dynamic community of microbes known as the gut microbiome, and is constantly exposed to things in the ...

The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a ...