Tiny genetic variations between humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans might not be all they were cracked up to be.

Experiments on an ultra-rare genetic mutation that causes neurodegeneration in children have helped uncover a new mechanism ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

A rare breed of hunting dogs known for its forked nose, the Turkish Pointer, might just help scientists better understand why human babies are sometimes born with facial clefts. In a recent study, ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

Black patients and patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are dramatically under-represented in genetics ...

Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...

Italian brown bears have some remarkable characteristics. Learn more about these bears and how several factors made them docile.