A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Using multiple sequencing technologies to analyze the genetics of a four-generation family allowed researchers to see how human DNA changes over time. Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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 ...