What causes autoimmune disease? A new study finds that somatic mutations in immune checkpoint genes like PDL1 trigger the ...

Did humans lose their sense of smell? A study on the Orang Asli people reveals that hunter-gatherers maintain ancestral smell genes for foraging, while farmers' olfactory receptors evolved alongside ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes on the immune system. It reveals a previously hidden role for somatic ...

Something happened around 4,000 years ago in West Eurasia that made red-haired people more common.

Over the past 10,000 years, evolution in West Eurasia has been selecting for light skin, red hair and resistance to HIV and ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries ...

A new Nature study suggests DNA mutations in immune cells may drive autoimmune diseases by removing immune system brakes, ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

Thorns in different plant species have always been an interesting subject for botanists. Be it rose plants or cactus, they ...

Finally, this thesis demonstrates that inherited predisposition, such as germline mutations in the TP53 gene, plays an important role in how treatment influences the evolution of second cancers. These ...