A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

While scientists previously recognized two major settlement waves occurring 15,000 and 9,000 years ago, genomic analysis now ...

A Nature study has identified specific genetic variants that influence LDL cholesterol production, potentially lowering heart disease risk. Researchers used advanced screening to pinpoint DNA changes ...

Complete Genomics, a U.S.-based leader in genomic sequencing technologies, today announced results demonstrating that AI-trained variant calling models can reduce genome analysis errors by up to 73% ...

Learn how shrinking habitats are isolating African elephant populations and how restoring connections could help save the ...

Many of today's villages and towns in Central Europe trace their origins to settlements that emerged after the collapse of ...

Many common mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety, are associated with a tendency to internalize problems ...

A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival.

A new Nature Genetics study has identified abnormal regulatory patterns in excitatory neurons and microglia linked to genetic risk for major depressive disorder. The findings suggest that depression’s ...

The genus Avena, encompassing both wild and cultivated oat species, has long been a focus of genomic and cytogenetic research aimed at deciphering complex evolutionary histories and optimising ...