Rare diseases are not actually that rare. Collectively they affect 500 million people around the world. Some, such as Huntington’s disease and sickle cell disease, affect many thousands, others only ...

Source: Prof Dhlamini appointed acting NUST Pro-Vice Chancellor – herald Sifelani Tsiko Fact Check Editor Renowned biotechnology researcher and head of the National University of Science and ...

Thin stretches of the human X chromosome look oddly empty when you scan for Neanderthal DNA. Geneticists even have a name for the gaps: “Neanderthal deserts.

Scientists are exploring pig skin to gain a fuller understanding of how this process works. The result could mean uncovering ...

An integrin mutation impairs skin T cell migration, enabling HPV proliferation that causes warts and lesions in a rare genetic dermatological condition.

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

If more human females mated with Neanderthal males than the other way around, over thousands of years you would expect to see ...

Genealogy study claims first conclusive case of sex ‘distortion’ in humans — but not all researchers are convinced.

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.