The Golden Jubilee 50th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics (ISHG-2026) commenced on Thursday at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), bringing ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping ...

Peer-reviewed / Observational study / PeopleExposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggestsHumans' exposure to ...

The secret to youthful appearance and repairing scars may lie in a microscopic skin structure humans share with pigs and ...

Some say new research has "important consequences for ageing research", while others believe the study's findings are "not ...

The research, published in Science, argues that the true genetic contribution to the variation in human lifespan has been ...

Having a long life may well run in families, scientists have said, after they discovered genetics plays a far bigger role than previously thought.