Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) developed a new RNA sequencing strategy that can reveal how ...

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

The new method relies on methyl groups, small chemical tags attached to DNA that regulate whether genes are on or off. This ...

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Detecting whether osteosarcoma, a rare but aggressive bone cancer that most often affects children and adolescents, has ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...

DNA methylation data can be used to estimate biological age, but results across commercial tests differ, raising questions ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released draft guidance on how sponsors can utilize next-generation sequencing ...