Deep in your muscles, an enzyme called AMPD1 helps turn chemical fuel into usable energy. When it does not work well, muscles tire faster. That matters because problems with AMPD1 are the most common ...

For more than a century, Neanderthals have been cast as a vanished side branch of the human family tree, a brief encounter in our deep past. The latest high resolution Neanderthal genome, combined ...

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We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...