Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Deep inside a handful of caves, scientists are pulling genetic secrets out of bones, teeth and even the surrounding dirt, and ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025. Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the ...

“Burns are a uniquely human injury. No other species lives alongside high temperatures and the regular risk of burning in the way humans do,” study co-author Joshua Cuddihy of Imperial’s Department of ...

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Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...