The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

A massive study of ancient genomes has revealed that natural selection acted on hundreds of human genes throughout recent ...

Officially unveiled at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 meeting held in Boston, Genomics has launched Mystra, an AI-enabled human genetics platform designed to accelerate drug target ...

For many scientists, the first glimpse of a DNA sequence—those colored peaks marking A, T, C, and G—sparked a lifelong fascination with the code that shapes us all. That same spirit of discovery ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the surface of target cells, a molecular arms race that ...

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 ...

When you think about evolution, what comes to mind? Certainly, things like opposable thumbs are one factor here; so too is ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...

A study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reports a major advance in understanding how interactions ...

Me Research Institute, a nonprofit medical research organization, announced the publication of a study that identifies ...