Imagine a single genetic mutation, tucked deep within our DNA, forever changing the course of human history. Could a tiny ...

Imagine a world where changing your biological sex is as simple as flicking a switch. For some remarkable fish, this isn’t ...

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

A groundbreaking DNA study reveals how genetic mutations pass through generations, offering new insights into disease and ...

A new study, appearing in Nature Genetics and led by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST ...

In the full study, conducted in collaboration with the Castiglione Lab at Vanderbilt University and partially funded by the ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...