A pair of papers published this week in the two leading scientific journals mark the completion of the Human Genome Project and the start of a new project to find all of the functional elements in ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient remains excavated at archeological sites near the country’s capital Bogota ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

“While the rest of the genome shuffles between the maternal and paternal origins, centromeres are inherited intact: one from ...

Recent discoveries in Colombia have unveiled a previously unknown human DNA lineage in ancient remains, offering fascinating ...

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 ...

Researchers have found that nearly three-quarters of the population carry newly identified genetic elements called Inocles, ...

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of microbiomes, “communities” of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in or ...

Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, ...