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A new study reveals that Africa’s low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of ...

The findings could potentially enable patients to be identified and treated before symptoms of ATTR-CM emerge.

When modern humans first ventured out of Africa, they followed in the footsteps of another human species who dared leave ...

A GENETICS project aiming to have one of the largest research reference population for goat meat production in the world has ...

Launceston City Council has voted to sterilise the popular troop of macaque monkeys living in City Park as they are becoming ...

The genome of a once-endangered songbird shows extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study. Because inbreeding can negatively impact survival and reproduction, the results could guide ...

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

Neanderthals interbred with modern humans 47,000 years ago, passing down DNA that still exists in many modern-day people, ...

An analysis of mitochondrial genomes from nearly 60,000 people shows where selection has removed deleterious genetic variants from the population, revealing which mtDNA sites are most important ...