Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome editing technique ...

Some Neanderthals living in northwestern Europe after 52,500 years ago were surprisingly diverse, suggesting that they didn't ...

A Bulgarian cave's 45,000-year-old human remains have rewritten our understanding of early European settlement. Genomic ...

Illustration of an embryo in the early stages of development. (Design Cells/iStock/Getty Images) The first moments of life ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

A new study uses precise base editing on human embryos for the first time, proving the NANOG gene is the master switch for body development.

Modern humans who lived close to the equator were found to be more likely to be able to digest bugs, but this ability decreased among modern humans as the distance from the tropics increased. The ...

A hunter-gatherer cemetery in Siberia has rewritten the history of plague and the spread of disease before farming.

The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was ...