The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...

Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Centromeres act as the control centers of chromosomes, ensuring accurate genetic inheritance during cell division, yet they ...

Genome assemblies from 65 individuals, representing a variety of the world’s populations, are advancing the scientific exploration of complex genetic structural variation. Structural variations are ...

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 ...

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.