A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Dr Sandeep Nayak details how genetic counselling and BRCA testing identify breast cancer risks, offering proactive screening and advanced surgery in Bangalore.

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

It's long been assumed the Jomon people, who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago since around 16,000 years ago, had multiple lineages resulting from different migration routes. But new genetic ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

23andMe Research Institute today announced the publication of a new study highlighting the positive health actions taken by people who learned of their risk through direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...