Researchers including those at the University of Tokyo have made a surprising discovery hiding in people's mouths: Inocles, giant DNA elements that ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell Genomics, researchers at Lund University show that the repetitive part of ...

Their DNA reflects a journey that began in Africa, passed through Asia, and ended on a remote island thousands of years ago.

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Space travel accelerates the ageing of human stem cells, reveals new research. Spaceflight speeds up the ageing of cells ...

The new investigation revealed that parts of the human genome change much faster than was previously known, laying the foundations for new insights into the roots of human disease and evolution.

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...