A new finding has revealed that the way that some of us deal with the flu may come from a long-lost DNA line that comes from ...

A new study has found a rare genetic mutation that allows some of us to get only a few short hours of sleep and wake up ...

Unique mutations in the H5N1 strain enhance replication in human cells and cause severe disease in mice. The virus has spread from birds to mammals, including dairy cows, and infected humans, with one ...

For thousands of years, the nomadic Turkana people have lived across the sun-baked expanses of northwestern Kenya, subsisting ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where RNA polymerase 'opens' your DNA to read and copy instructions – known as ...

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in development. These areas are in the initial portions of genes, where the cell tends ...