Investigators have turned to genetic genealogy in a bid to track down a suspect in the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy ...

Investigators are hopeful that some of the DNA that was found at Guthrie's home can be parsed and help point to a suspect in ...

Only 0.15% of a genome can be enough to redraw a map of human ancestry. Herders who lived when the Sahara had wetlands and ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

A forensic technology that has set wrongfully convicted murderers free and jailed famed serial killers just landed its first ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of the human family tree. It has long been known that the Sahara Desert, today ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Bob Starkey was in the LSU women’s basketball team’s locker room when he decided to take out his phone and snap a photo he’d later post to Instagram. Starkey wanted people to see ...

Researchers have created detailed genetic maps that show how large networks of genes drive disease, filling in long-missing biological gaps. The breakthrough could change how scientists identify and ...

Mind maps show how visual structure connects ideas and establishes relationships between complex topics. Mind map examples highlight how layout, hierarchy, and color choices influence focus and ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing on a new framework called "exposomics." Similar to the way scientists work to map ...