Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

A scientist has warned that Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history. Graham ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Rett syndrome is a devastating rare genetic childhood disorder primarily affecting girls. Merely 1 out of 10,000 girls are ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.