Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath ...

Haplogroup L1 is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. It is most common in Central Africa and West Africa. It diverged from L1-6 at about 140,000 years ago . Its emergence is associated with ...

In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup E is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup typical for the Malay Archipelago. It is a subgroup of haplogroup M9.

A new collaborative study from Karolinska Institutet published in Science Advances shows that the levels of mitochondrial DNA ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

A critical transition in early human development is regulated not by our own genes, but by DNA elements called transposons that can move around the genome, Sinai Health researchers have found.

Mitochondrial genome mutations may be linked to ALS, per a study, opening the door for new ways to diagnosing and treating ...

Although the DNA was old and degraded, the team devised a new method to piece enough of it together to identify specific species. They identified six species: human, giraffe, oryx, waterbuck ...

Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study suggests. Humans carry multiple copies of the salivary amylase gene (AMY1 ...

Your nose may be more powerful than you think. In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par ...