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 ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

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 ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

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

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

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

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