Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

Previous sequencing tools could sequence only small sections of DNA at once. With a 10,000-piece puzzle, it’s hard to correctly arrange small puzzle pieces when they look alike, much like it is ...

Researchers have now discovered that HAR123, a regulatory gene sequence, is an important factor in human brain development.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Human DNA can appear as a contaminant in the genomic samples of bacterial species because the bacterial DNA is often taken from swipes off of human skin. Scientists use the current human genome ...

Specifically, the DNA sequences in question, which the researchers have dubbed Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions (HAQERS), pronounced like hackers, regulate genes.

The newly added sequence, amounting to nearly 10 percent of the human genome, includes some genes and large amounts of repetitive DNA, the trickiest genomic regions to sequence. Most of this DNA ...