Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

The company actively recruited people with four grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa for a genetic research project in 2013 ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent's vast genetic diversity. Less ...

Scientists are studying the origins of the inhabitants of the 'green Sahara' through the DNA of two female mummies.

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

The Founder of the African Genetic Biocontrol Consortium, Dr Willy Kiprotich Tonui, has called for a new solution in the ...

Cameroonian researcher Ambroise Wonkam, who leads the African Society of Human Genetics, said this leads to serious problems in diagnosing and treating genetic conditions. “If we don't know ...