You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized ...

Genetic carrier screening is conducted to determine if an asymptomatic person is a carrier for a potentially inheritable pathogenic gene.

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

Archaeological research is increasingly focusing on teeth to reveal insights into ancient lives. Dental analysis uncovers ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...