Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...

By comparing the human and Neanderthal genomes, the researchers discovered only three single-letter differences in a short ...

By studying Neanderthal DNA, researchers shed light on key genetic factors that contribute to the unique structure of human faces.

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) exhibits a degree of resistance to mutagenesis under genotoxic stress, and this study on the mitochondrial Transcription Factor A (TFAM) presents valuable data concerning the ...