Genomes chart the history of Neanderthal-modern human interactions

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

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.
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Do Some Parts of the Human Genome Mutate Quickly?

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome ...
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Genomics explained: How tech revealed the information inside our DNA

New technological advancements have allowed us to look at the entire human genome. The genome is the complete set of genetic information encoded in the DNA. Human DNA has around three billion ...

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...
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'Dark Matter' in Your Genome Could Unlock New Disease Treatments

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain, and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

Direct Genome-Scale Mapping of Endonuclease Activity of the Human LINE-1 ORF2p Endonuclease

Nabsys 2.0, LLC (Nabsys), a pioneer in electronic genome mapping (EGM) technology, today announced new findings presented at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) 2026 meeting. The data ...