NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - If Hollywood needs a plot for a medical thriller, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have one: Doctors, using cutting-edge technology called whole-genome ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

A single Neanderthal skeleton pulled from a cave in the Rhône Valley has opened a window onto a branch of our cousins that split off early and then stayed apart. The newly sequenced genome reveals a ...