A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise ...

Throughout their long history, Qimmit have remained working dogs–still almost exclusively bred by mushers to pull sleds for ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and ...

An 8-year-old boy, wheelchair-bound due to a rare genetic disease, HPDL deficiency, regained his mobility through an ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.