A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

Scientists continue to study how interbreeding shaped our DNA, as similar patterns exist across the animal kingdom. These ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a link between humans and our furry friends through a gene called DENND1B, which is most strongly associated with obesity. According to a new study ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...