A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food Science are shedding new light on how a ...

An ancient Egyptian buried inside a pot was a potter who was given an elite burial, and now he is giving researchers clues ...

With the initiative, families can have their baby’s full genetic code sequenced at no cost to identify potentially serious ...

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

When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects nearly one in three adults around the globe. It ...

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

Cancer is not a welcome diagnosis, but breakthroughs in genetic sequencing and immunotherapy are making some cancers easier ...