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

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

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My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

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At the heart of Karen Read’s high-profile murder trial is newly analyzed data from her Lexus SUV, recorded the night before ...

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

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

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