Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection ...

On remote islands of Papua New Guinea, people carry a story that ties us all back to our deepest roots. Although their ...

For the first time, scientists have found genetic proof of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in a 1,500-year-old mass ...

The first ancient human genomes analyzed from Papua New Guinea reveal that some of the early groups that lived there were completely genetically isolated from their neighbors, showing there was little ...

Across the South Pacific, tucked between rainforests and volcanic mountains, Papua New Guinea holds one of the most genetically unique populations in the world. Long isolated from the rest of humanity ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis, published in Nature on ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

In 1985, geneticists achieved a major archeological breakthrough after they successfully extracted partial DNA from ancient Egyptian skeletal remains. Almost exactly four decades later, researchers ...

New research shows that ancient dogs did not join Indigenous people in Central and South America until farming became popular—especially of maize ...