Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are. A recent ...

Proteins sustain life as we know it, serving many important structural and functional roles throughout the body. But these ...

Across two new papers published Wednesday (July 23) in the journal Nature, scientists sequenced the DNA of 1,084 people ...

Researchers have found a genetic link between hibernating mammals and humans, potentially offering new treatments for ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published July 21 in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain ...

Human drinking culture may owe a debt to great apes who forage boozy fermented fruit from the forest floor, scientists ...

Hibernating animals' amazing abilities could lie within our own DNA—and perhaps their resilience could one day be ours too.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian, who lived when the earliest pyramids were built ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the potential ancestry of those who belonged to the enduring civilization.