The initiative is anticipated to establish vital African genetic reference databases for medicine, disease research, and ...

Hidden for 7,000 years beneath the sands of the Sahara, two mummified bodies have revealed a genetic mystery with no known ...

The study published in PNAS sets out how, in just 1,500 years, the Copts have acquired a genetic variant that protects them from contracting malaria after mixing with other Sudanese populations.

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

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Scientists hunting for the DNA of famed Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci say they’ve made a breakthrough—but some experts caution against interpreting the results as a smoking gun.

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

Egypt secured a 1-0 win over South Africa at the Africa Cup of Nations at the Stade Adrar on Friday to book their place in the round of 16. Both teams failed to create a clear-cut chance in the early ...

Egypt are through to the knockout phase of the Africa Cup of Nations after beating South Africa in a controversial Group B showdown on Friday. Mohamed Salah’s penalty was enough for the seven-time ...

A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer populations that dispersed between 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. By combining ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural History Museum were able to sequence high quality DNA from her skeletal ...

Like a toy on a string, the timing of cat domestication has been a moving target. Now researchers have pounced on a new timeline suggesting that tame descendants of African wildcats left the continent ...