Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...

A new study has shown that almost two thirds of modern dog breeds carry traces of wolf DNA, which could influence their size, ...

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

When scientists sequenced the first Neanderthal genomes, they did not just resurrect a lost branch of the human family tree, ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

A pilot study from Bournemouth University found six regulatory DNA variants – some inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Leading synthetic biologists have shared hard-won lessons from their decade-long quest to build the world's first synthetic ...

Researchers from Gladstone Institutes and Stanford developed a genomic mapping method that links complex traits to the gene ...

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – ...

Scientists who built the first synthetic eukaryotic genome share hard-won lessons that could accelerate engineering of crops, ...

The first 100 bases of many genes show excess mutations, revealing a major genomic weak spot that shapes disease risk and ...