Researchers found that Neanderthals carried excess modern human DNA on their X chromosomes, pointing to predominantly male ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

New genome sequencing algorithm boosts human genome completeness by 20%, improving variant detection and advancing personalized medicine.

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...