By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played ...

People with lower interleukin-6 activity have a reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases, a new LMU study reveals.

While the process via which different types of neurons are produced, also known as neurogenesis, has been the focus of ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

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

Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...