New research suggests that the evolution of the human brain may explain why autism is more common in humans than in other ...

Micronutrients, minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution more than ...

Scientists often call it an antenna. This tiny structure, sticking out from the surface of most human cells, is known as the ...

A global study shows human DNA adapted to local minerals like zinc, iodine, and magnesium, shaped by diet and soil.

Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...