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

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in ...

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Over the past two decades, researchers have learned that DNA inside the cell nucleus naturally folds into a network of ...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Center have identified genetic variants associated ...

In the largest ever study of its kind, an analysis of entire tumor genomes has provided the most complete picture yet of an aggressive type of brain cancer. Diffuse gliomas are aggressive brain tumors ...

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why ...