This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular ...