Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that the introgressed genes result from interbreeding ...

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—even if that beholder is a barn swallow. Depending on where the birds live, some of them ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...

Most sickle cell disease patients who received the gene-editing therapy Casgevy have been free from vaso-occlusive crises for ...

Two recent studies suggest that the gene flow (as the young people call it these days) between Neanderthals and our species ...

A gene that causes skull malformation when mutated has just been linked to schizophrenia, a condition known for causing ...

The trees showed up to 62% more Rubisco content, about a 25% increase in net leaf carbon dioxide uptake, as much as 37% ...

The majority of SCD patients given Lyfgenia in clinical trials remained free of vaso-occlusive events (VOEs) following ...

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin ... | Genetics And Genomics ...