Research reveals that our ability to digest starchy foods has much deeper roots than previously thought, potentially ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, helping to uncover targets for drug development and identify potential effective ...

Our love of french fries and other carbs dates back over 800,000 years to our cavemen ancestors, suggests a new study. The ...

Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.

It was a new species of hominin, now known as Denisovans, who were the first human cousins identified only by their DNA.

New research reveals the most complete map of the brain, including microscopic details from 140,000 neurons, millions of ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

However, the genetic basis of sesame yield- and disease-related traits remains unclear. Here, we represent the construction of a high-density bin map of sesame using whole genome sequencing of an F2 ...