Researchers have used modified CRISPR to silence the extra chromosome 21 in Down syndrome cells, showing promising ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

A new study shows that vitamin D’s ability to reduce type 2 diabetes risk depends on genetic variation in the vitamin D ...

A study using ancient DNA has identified notable evolutionary adjustments to dietary, settlement, disease and other changes ...

For years, the story of recent human evolution looked relatively quiet. Scientists studying ancient human DNA had found only ...

Researchers found sex-specific gene expression networks linked to Alzheimer’s pathology using single-cell and systems-level ...

Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

There’s more history in your blood types than you think, and it didn’t begin with humans. Here’s what we know about them, ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

We used to think of dementia as a disease of old age. But every year, hundreds of thousands of people in their 40s and 50s ...

The study underscored the unique genetic architecture of the Indian population shaped by local environmental exposures, ...

Titel: A Synthetic XY System in Xenopus laevis Reveals Evolutionary Pathways for Sex Chromosome Turnover. Kurzinhalt: ...