The Latest Breaking News from Genome

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes.

A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the country on an ethical precipice. The newly added language appears to position the country as the first to explicitly permit the use of genome editing to create genetically modified children.

Anyone who has spent time inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) knows it’s intense.

Breakthrough has potential to revolutionise wildlife conservation

Researchers working with Colossal Biosciences have assembled a near-complete Tasmanian tiger genome and developed artificial reproductive technologies that could help de-extinct the species.

A well-preserved thylacine head was a gruesome sight – but it also contained RNA molecules crucial to reconstructing the extinct animal’s genome

Majority of early immigrants to Japan came from Korean peninsula, study finds

Does carcinization mean humans will one day grow pincers? Not exactly, but the concept is still fascinating