Until recently, the idea of cloning a Neanderthal seemed exclusively a science fiction plot. However, today such issues are ...

When I explain my research interests to new acquaintances, I’m often asked questions like “what would you do if you met a ...

A scientist is looking for a woman to act as a surrogate mother to a Neanderthal baby. Professor George Church plans to use DNA from fossil bones to reconstruct the DNA of a Neanderthal and ...

LITTLE ROCK — Scientists report that they have reconstructed the genome of Neanderthals, a human species that was driven to extinction some 30,000 years ago, probably by the first modern humans to ...

CHICAGO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Gene sleuths who have come up with a rough draft of the Neanderthal DNA code said on Thursday the ancient relatives of modern humans shared with us one gene for speech, but ...

Not every modern human has the same set of Neanderthal DNA, however; different people will, by chance, have inherited different fragments. But there are also some areas, termed “Neanderthal deserts,” ...

You know a story has gone viral when the gang at Taiwan's Next Media Animation makes fun of it — and such is the case with Harvard geneticist George Church's recent comments about the prospects for ...