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A study from the lab of Stanford geneticist Noah Rosenberg indicates that two African Americans born in the early 1960s have a probability between 19% and 31% of sharing at least one common ancestor who was forcibly transported to the Western Hemisphere during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

A new study suggests that there may have been evolutionary advantages from changes to genes also associated with autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

Modern science has shown that evolution is far more complex than the passing on of traits through genes. A new book offers fresh perspectives on organisms’ significant variance in

Using DNA from rescued captive tigers in the U.S., Stanford researchers have developed a genetic reference panel that can help identify tigers suitable for conservation and prosecu

The team led by Stanford Medicine analyzed thousands of genomes, including those newly sequenced from 204 skeletons, to gain insight into how and where people moved during the Roma

The researchers have identified genes involved in hybrid incompatibility, a phenomenon that raises reproductive barriers between species and evolutionarily splits them apart.

New research from Stanford suggests climate change will disrupt many age-old partnerships between aspen trees and fungi that are essential to healthy forests.

Jason Andrews explains why tracking and treating tuberculosis in prisons is critical to combating the disease worldwide.

Stanford Medicine scientists describe details of the human intestine and placental tissue as part of the National Institute of Health’s Human Biomolecular Atlas Program.

New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.

Human cells evolving in the laboratory undergo a series of predictable, sequential genetic changes that lead to pre-cancer. Blocking these changes may allow intervention before can

Intent on recording the complete journeys of proteins through different areas of cells – or between separate cells – researchers led by Stanford’s Alice Ting have devised a new tag

A course on chili peppers covers history, anthropology, biology, and culture, and includes a visit to a specialty pepper farm in East Palo Alto.

The solution to the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer could lie in every man’s genome. Stanford Medicine researchers take a step toward genetically personalized ca