PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

A new annotation approach based on cross-species conservation reveals regulatory roles of transposons in human development.

The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into our distant past, prompting questions about how they lived and whether they ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk" ...

Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have discovered the evolutionary rhythm of gene expression, showing that ...

A study led by Dr. LI Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

For example, gene editing could help restore lost genetic diversity to species with small populations. They say it also could help by removing harmful mutations, or introducing new genes from closely ...

One of the earliest known human burials unearthed in Skhul Cave was a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals with an ...

A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...