Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , according to ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...