Long ago, Neanderthals and modern humans interbred. But among Neanderthals, their modern human blood came mostly from their ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

UD developmental biologist studies genetics of jaw joint disorder with NIH funding ...

While all cats are said to have nine lives, some breeds are naturally hardier than others. Breeds shaped by natural evolution ...

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of ...

Certain cancers in pet cats develop through genetic mutations very similar to those in humans, which could help improve ...

MIT researchers have discovered that two common genetic mutations that cause Rett syndrome each set off a molecular chain of events that compromises the structural integrity of developing brain blood ...

Loss of the Y chromosome in aging men is widespread and increasingly linked to serious diseases, challenging assumptions that the Y has little biological importance beyond sex determination.