Not ready for Pro? Join Live Science Plus Want more Life's Little Mysteries? Developing research suggests that ancient interbreeding wasn't random — it was socially patterned, directional and far more complicated than the headlines suggest. Some of the answers, it turns…
But what if I told you there was a time when our ancestors were pushed to the brink of extinction? An international research team led by Wangjie Hu of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York…
Read Time: 8 minutes This Halloween, you can skip the ghostly sheet. Every human already carries a ghost, several of them, in fact, stitched into the long strands of DNA we inherited from our parents. It was passed down from long-dead…
Every living organism has a genetic code that scientists can read and store digitally. This information, known as Digital Sequence Information (DSI), can be downloaded and used to develop medicines, vaccines, cosmetics, improved crop varieties and other commercial products without…
IBG is recruiting 2-3 faculty (Assistant or Associate/Full) in statistical genetics, twin and family designs, and computational research. Start date fall 2027. Applications received by October 15, 2026 receive full consideration. This series of lectures is available as a YouTube playlist. This practical…
Oct 28, 2026 at 07:45 AM EDT An extraordinary series of voyages that populated some of the most-remote islands in the Pacific left a genetic legacy that could have consequences for the health of Native Hawaiians and other Eastern Polynesian peoples today, new…
When the team compared its data with more than 5,000 mitochondrial genomes from across Eurasia, a layered picture emerged. The Koṅkaṇī maternal gene pool carries both deep-rooted South Asian lineages belonging to macro-haplogroup M and West Eurasian lineages, indicating that local…
Humanity spread from Africa to all corners of the globe, and in the process of that migration, differences in genetic diversity emerged from region to region.In the future, if population decline and concentration in cities continue over the long…
Botanists have described Carex ensiformis, a new sedge species from southern China, using morphological, micromorphological and DNA evidence.
Made up of Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Algeria, north Africa is a melting pot of cultures with two predominant human populations with their own language and culture: the Arabs and the Imazighen. Part of their history has been buried…
Genetic history from DNA: ancient genomes, human migrations and ancestry, Neanderthal DNA in living people and the population genetics of species.
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