In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete DNA set from an ancient Egyptian man, the oldest studied sequence, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis, published ...

DNA methylation plays an important role in separating us genetically from our closest relatives.

Footprints left on a beach. Air breathed in a busy room. Ocean water. Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ...

Research called Multiple Annealing and Looping-Based Amplification Cycles (MALBAC) comes out of Harvard, and it is making single-cell sequencing a reality. While other single-cell sequencing has been ...

In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...