Scientists reveal a hidden second layer of human DNA, showing how genome folding controls genes and influences disease development.

Political leaders like United States President Donald Trump and business oligarchs like Elon Musk have increasingly suggested that human behaviour and social outcomes are rooted in genetics. Trump has ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

What can the world's longest living individual teach us about longevity? A team of scientists coordinated by the University ...

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people ...

Chronic inflammation can raise a person's risk of cancer, and a new study reveals key details about how that might happen in ...

DNA reveals the unique story of a man buried in Menga whose roots lie in Iberia, Africa, and the Mediterranean a thousand ...

The scientists at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences are working toward finding Tajikistan ancestry through ...

Researchers have defined a new genetic disease caused by a mutation in the IVNS1ABP gene. The condition marks a rare ...

It is well known that chronic inflammation can increase a person’s cancer risk, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Now, a new study reveals, in a mouse model of colitis, gut tissues may ...