In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

An artificial-intelligence network trained on a vast trove of sequence data is a step towards designing completely new ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Many studies are revealing that the total content of structural variants in the human genome could equal or exceed that of SNPs. Structural variants often coincide with low-copy repeat DNA (also ...

At NC State University, an English professor is searching for clues from the past. He's looked back as far as the eighth ...

First discovered in 2010, the ‘Red Lady of El Mirón’ is an ochre-coated skeleton that provides a glimpse into human life ...

A new study reveals how AI-driven deep learning models can decode the genetic regulatory switches that define brain cell ...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

New York detectives arrested a suspect connected to a 88-year-old woman’s murder more than 20 years ago. They said they ...

The mystery around Jack the Ripper’s identity has seemingly been solved after more than a century, as claimed by a researcher, Russell Edwards.