And It Could Help Future Medicine Scientists have just made a fascinating discovery about the roots of the Japanese people.

The saola’s newly sequenced genome offers hope for one of Earth’s rarest mammals.

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

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The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

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Krystal Tsosie, Diné, stands before a mural in Eagle Butte, S.D., on the Cheyenne River Reservation. Tsosie is a geneticist, epidemiologist and advocate who has begun working toward returning control ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral ...

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An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 ... and ideas shaping our world today. To study this history ...