Why are so many people right-handed? A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger brains. According to Sci.News, ...

Our parents' genes, even the ones we didn't inherit, leave a measurable lasting imprint on our lives. An international team led by researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) ...

Scientists are always thinking up crazy experiments to push our knowledge forward, and injecting human brain cells into mice ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...

Supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are enabling scientists to uncover when—and how—critical human traits may have undergone transformative evolutionary shifts. Frontera (top), ...

Human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 98% identical, and the genes themselves barely differ. The changes that make us ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...