Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

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A new genetic study has shifted the way scientists describe the origins of modern humans. For many years, the simplest ...

DNA switches that predate humans and Neanderthals still influence how people speak today, offering new clues about language ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...

A number of studies have highlighted that ethnicity is an important factor influencing the genetic variability of some CYP450 enzymes and that human adaptation could have a role in shaping the genetic ...