People with Indigenous American ancestry carry Denisovan genes that Neanderthals passed on when they mated with modern humans ...

Scientists combined genetics and fractal theory to analyze these branching heart structures.

For the last two decades, the prevailing view in human evolutionary genetics has been that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, and descended from a single ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during reproduction. The map marks a major step in the understanding of genetic ...

Meanwhile, a team of scientists, including the creator of the world's first mammal cloned from an adult, have detailed what obstacles remain before human cloning — for any purpose — can even ...