Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

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New research challenges the view that proteins are the only key to evolution, highlighting the importance of lipids.

Scientists found a compound that appears to counter common mutations behind POLG-related diseases, rare conditions that harm ...

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