Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development.

In an unprecedented discovery, scientists have reconstructed the complete human genome of a Stone Age woman from a 5,700-year ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...

Translocations are chromosomal "cut and paste" errors that drive many lymphomas, a type of blood cancer and the sixth most ...

In 2013, scientists managed to close that gap by about half. And finally, in 2022, the first "gapless" human genome was published.

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...