Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis ...

A study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the result of a recent introduction. Instead, the virus has been present ...

They have more Neanderthal DNA than contemporary sub-Saharan Africans. “Our findings suggest that while early North African populations were largely isolated, they received traces of Neandertal DNA ...

In the middle of the 19 th century, the German explorer Heinrich Barth discovered prehistoric Saharan rock sculptures and engravings while traveling through the Sahara Desert in North Africa. Barth, ...

DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of female herders from a time when the Sahara was more humid and known as the Green Sahara, did not show the expected Sub-Saharan genes.

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year ... suggested the region likely wasn’t a migration corridor that linked sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa despite the Sahara’s ...

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read ... because we have pottery coming from sub-Saharan Africa.

Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 minute read ... because we have pottery coming from sub-Saharan Africa.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert ...

Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert was a far lusher, hospitable ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.