Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young ...

They also added that these findings provide new insights into human migration, technological exchange, and the early contacts ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

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“In support to recent literature in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, our cohort data showed that the protective effect of a negative genetic testing on disease progression was a stronger predictor than ...

Gen Z would rather cut Social Security benefits for current retirees than pay higher taxes to save the program 'Avatar' star ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor who unknowingly carried a rare genetic ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

A large Mayo Clinic study shows that current guidelines fail to detect nearly 90% of people with familial hypercholesterolemia, a common inherited cause of dangerously high cholesterol. Many affected ...