Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

A single Neanderthal gene slipped into lab mice triggered unexpected changes in their skeletons. Scientists in Japan uncovered traits echoing long-lost human cousins.

A team of scientists at Duke University made a mouse just a bit more human. They didn’t give it speech or opposable thumbs.

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

More information: Jing Yu et al, An interplay between human genetics and intratumoral microbiota in the progression of colorectal cancer, Cell Host & Microbe (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.

All human genetic diversity can be traced to recombination and de novo mutations, DNA sequence present in the child but not in the parents. The map shows that mutations are elevated near regions ...

image: Authors on the paper in Nature: Complete human recombination maps, Kari Stefansson CEO of deCODE genetics with Bjarni V. Halldorsson and Gunnar Palsson, scientists at deCODE genetics. view more ...

Understanding the interplay between genetic inheritance and environmental exposure is critical to developing a full picture of human health and disease ... role in T2D etiology (16); however, we ...

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Ahead of the 2024 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, ASHG congratulated and welcomed the 2024–2026 Human Genetics Scholars this August. The scholars include a group of ...

The eagerly anticipated annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is now in progress. Part of the buildup for the event was an announcement, issued by the ASHG in August ...

Whether through genetics or ... who was tested as drawing and accurately firing his gun in less than a tenth of a second, faster than the reaction time of the average human brain.