By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have developed a new, targeted means of inserting entire genes into human DNA ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

Genes may play a bigger role in living a longer life, while lifestyle and luck still shape the outcome, according to a new ...