A sweeping new genetic analysis suggests that humans living in southern Africa spent roughly 100,000 years in isolation, long ...

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

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance ...

Learn more about what how humans ended up having Neanderthal DNA in their genome and what it means if you have it.

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

NIH funding has allowed scientists to see the DNA blueprints of human life—completely. In 2022, the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, a group of NIH-funded scientists from research institutions around ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common present-day chemicals could explain why some women are more likely to develop ...