The reproductive tech company Orchid recently launched a genetic test that promises a whole genome sequencing report for ...

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

Perhaps human females found Neanderthal males to be high-status providers. Or perhaps Neanderthal society was “patrilocal” — meaning women moved to join the man’s family — while human society was the ...

Heat does not have to reach record-breaking levels to change what happens in the womb. Across millions of births in sub-Saharan Africa and India, days with high maximum temperatures during pregnancy ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear.

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...

Whether people follow a general trend when choosing a partner or consciously decide against it has a noticeable impact on the ...

With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...