But in the Indigenous South American genomes, the team found that there was significantly lower diversity in the HLA genes, which may have led to these people being more vulnerable to novel ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of important genetic diversity.

DNA of Indigenous peoples reveals their migration into South America 14,500 years ago and highlights health risks tied to genetic diversity. Image: An Indigenous woman in Chinchero, Peru, weaves in ...

South African scientists ... to have been done in African women living on the continent. A GWAS is a powerful research method that scans the entire DNA of many people to find genetic differences ...

Thurgood Marshall came to rural Hillburn, launching the effort to desegregate American schools that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok turned unrelated questions on several different issues back to an insistence that white genocide is ...

Who is Irish? What makes someone or something Irish? What does it mean to be Irish? And who gets to say who gets to be Irish? Defining Irish identity has long been a bone of contention for the Irish ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved Africans ...

Ultra-processed foods are a “genocide” on the Native American ... while women live an average of 63, according to the National Institutes of Health. The average American male’s life ...

Tax revenue from recreational marijuana in Albuquerque is funding a basic income program, providing $750 monthly payments to ...

Since the human genome was first sequenced in 2003, the world's scientific community has been racing to decipher this "book" written in an alphabet of four letters.