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

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

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

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

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

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

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

A researcher who says he revealed Jack the Ripper’s identity has told of his joy at finding a 100 per cent DNA match with his suspect.

Ignoring pleas by Israel and the International Red Cross for a respectful handover in private, Hamas had prominently ...

When you think about scientific research, you probably envision a sterile room that houses gleaming beakers, rows of pipettes and centrifuges. But what if you could house a lab on a chip?

Their device—the size of a microscope slide—uses fluid flow and electric fields to push contaminated DNA solutions through a channel about 100 microns square, or roughly the size of a human hair.

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...