Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...

Human DNA that has seeped into the environment through ... which means that we can easily determine if a male or female (was) walking in the sun or (their) presence in a room depending on whether ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala, revealing sanctuaries, ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

For the Human Genome Project, researchers collected blood (female) or sperm (male) samples from a large number of donors. Only a few samples were processed as DNA resources, and the source names ...

Few human remains this old have usable DNA, and “it’s in a gap where we ... and the researchers argue the care of the burial confirms female babies, and likely male babies, had “personhood ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

Since 2009, human remains of the Durotriges tribe have ... Both were related to mitochondrial DNA – small loops of DNA that we inherit only through the maternal line, since they are passed ...