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 ...

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

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

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

Experts share their insights with The i Paper as the UK becomes home to the first major project looking to write human DNA ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science - but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

The mitochondrial genome has long been implicated in age-related disease, but no studies have examined its role in the relationship of long-term fine particle (PM2.5) exposure and DNA methylation age ...

Finding any kind of sense or pattern to these numbers has, for centuries, been mathematics’ white whale: cropping up seemingly randomly in the number line, they evade prediction and ...