Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Genetic code surprise: An Oxford pond microbe uses two universal stop codons to code for amino acids, breaking a key rule of molecular biology. Why it matters: The discovery could alter evolutionary ...

Learn how a potato-rich diet may have reshaped human genes in the Andes thousands of years ago. Those changes could have ...

This article is part of a larger project by The Michigan Daily examining University of Michigan research trends by analyzing academic paper citations. The Daily spoke with Michael Boehnke, Richard G.

Individuals that share the same deletion of a portion of chromosome 16 are at risk of developing neurodevelopmental disorders ...

For years, genetic testing has been treated as something rare and exceptional—a highly specialized tool ordered only by ...