Genetics

Women with African ancestry have often been left out of breast cancer studies. Now scientists are catching up

Humans have a surprising lack of hair for mammals. Biological anthropology may provide insights into why the hair we have sometimes comes out curly.

DNA inherited from Neandertals may influence modern human cognition

Think twice before giving direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits to friends and loved ones

Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically built to require less sleep than the rest of us

A new study finds tweaking part of the H5N1 virus infecting dairy cows in a single spot could allow it to better attach to human cell receptors, raising concerns it could transmit more easily between people

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly convicted

Archaeological and genetic discoveries topple long-standing ideas about the domestication of equines

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

Separating medical data from culturally distinct Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) groups can improve health outcomes

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?