Seven new University Professorships have been endowed at Princeton University through major gifts to the Venture Forward campaign. The University Professorship is the most prestigious honor Princeton ...

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Princeton University senior Mahya Fazel-Zarandi has been named an international Gates Cambridge scholar, joining senior Joshua Yang, whose award of a Gates Scholarship for U.S. students was announced ...

Lea en español aquí. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will drastically slash the cap for overhead research costs on its grants starting Monday, a move that could significantly impact biomedical ...

By combining data from both studies, it was concluded that early humans and Neanderthals reached their peak interbreeding period around 47,000 years ago. The height of this interbreeding was not ...

Less uncertainty, more questions "These new papers are significant," says Joshua Akey, a genomicist at Princeton University. "They are much more of a direct estimate compared to the previous ...

That engenders a lot of confidence,” said Joshua Akey, a professor at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, who wasn’t part of either research group.

This genetic change is fascinating, says Joshua Akey, a Princeton University genomicist, who was not involved in the new studies, because it points to places on the human genome where Neandertal ...

“We know much less about how these encounters impacted the genomes of Neanderthals,” Joshua Akey, a population geneticist at Princeton University and senior author of the study, tells Live ...

The scientists discovered that the percentage of Homo sapiens DNA in the Neanderthal genome may have been as high as 10% more than 200,000 years ago and decreased over time; on average, it was 2.5 ...

A similar study published last year had identified genetic traces of an encounter between the two groups around 250,000 years ago but the contribution of Homo sapiens DNA to Neanderthals around ...

Akey said the genetic evidence shows that homo sapiens traveled north in multiple waves, making first contact with Neanderthals around 200,000 to 250,000 years ago, then again around 100,000 to ...