Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences. HARs were stable in mammals for ...

From sandy beaches to hospital rooms, humans are leaving their DNA behind everywhere they go, scientists have found. Researchers analysed samples gathered from the environment in the US and Ireland, ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Explore Neanderthal facts, from looks to lifestyle and abilities. These early humans are far more similar to us than once believed. Wanting to understand who we are, where we come from and how we ...

A re-creation of a Neanderthal on display at the National Museum of Prehistory in France shows what this prehistoric human cousin may have looked like. PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images There may have ...

The textbook explanation of DNA goes something like this: enzymes in our cells read a stretch of DNA and convert its code into a single-stranded RNA molecule, which is then used by ribosomes as a ...

Robertsonian chromosomes (ROB) are a type of structurally variant chromosome that is created when two chromosomes fuse together to form an unusual bond. Found commonly in nature, these chromosomes are ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

Researchers have successfully reconstructed the ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from human ...

Bar-Ilan University study shows that even jellyfish and sea anemones repair DNA during repose, underscoring the fact that a ...

About 8% of the human genome comes from viruses and without it we wouldn't have evolved into the species we are today (Credit: Getty Images) Although they are more commonly associated with causing ...