When modern humans first ventured out of Africa ... present-day people," the researchers write in their paper. "The Neanderthal DNA they carry could therefore have been introduced by a separate ...

“This paper helps us to understand that DNA [is] more than a sequence of letters; DNA is structurally organized, and human variation that structure is important for genomic function and trait ...

Increasingly, ancient DNA ... paper currently under review reveals the discovery of what is believed to be the oldest plague in Britain, dating back almost 3,000 years before the black death.

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 ...

Extracting fragments of DNA from 4,000-year-old strands of hair from Greenland that had been stored in a Copenhagen museum for decades, they reconstructed the first complete ancient human genome.

Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on the DNA of early inhabitants ... according to a paper published in Nature on Thursday.

These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) have around 30 times as much DNA as humans, according to a new paper in the journal Nature, which may give us clues as to how life transitioned ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe ... co-lead author of the Science paper and a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute ...

Published May 15 in Nature Ecology and Evolution, the paper by Duffy's group outlines the relative ease of collecting human DNA nearly everywhere they looked. "We've been consistently surprised ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human ... on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent paper ...