Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell ...

The largest genomic study of African elephants to date has found that both species - savanna and forest elephants - remain in ...

From the ability to detect the smell of wet soil to the scent of ripe fruit, the human olfactory system has evolved over ...

Research into ancient DNA samples has discovered that those who carry genes for red hair also are have immune benefits — but ...

What if some of the risk of anxiety and depression in children is not only about the genes they inherit, but also about their parents' genetic dispositions and how these influence the home environment ...

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—segments of DNA that help bacteria survive the effects of antibiotics—can be present in ...

The USC research team that recently identified the hormone-encoding gene GDF15 as a key driver of pregnancy sickness has ...

For the first time, a team of researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Agricultural Research Council has ...

Learn more about the discovery of antibiotic resistance genes in newborns within hours of birth in research presented at ...

An international research team analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across 17 African ...