Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The ...

Every cell in the body contains essentially the same DNA, yet a brain cell behaves differently from a muscle cell or an ...

People worldwide carry DNA from a mysterious extinct human lineage that interbred with our ancestors long ago.

Scientists already know that Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, leaving recognizable traces in people ...

In the new study, Moorjani and her colleagues reasoned that everyone's genome contains a record of their ancestry. They investigated whether it was possible to uncover signs of "long-extinct ancestors ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic legacy shows that our evolutionary past was shaped by repeated mixing ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. Anatomically ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...

Learn how DNA can be exchanged between two cells that connect by forming nanotubes, and find out why this is crucial for cancer research. When cells in our body are going through a rough patch due to ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical research published in the journal Science by the Spanish National Cancer Research ...