Stem-cell models provide evidence that viral DNA sequences that entered the human genome in the past were repurposed to aid early stages of embryonic development. Sherif Khodeer is in the Department ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A newly proposed bill, called the “Baby Olivia Act,” aims to require public schools to teach human growth and development in its curriculum. Rep. Melanie Miller, of Ashland, ...

Britain's Princess Catherine on Thursday hailed the importance of "human connection" in early childhood development, after her husband Prince William revealed their three children have not been given ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

A divorce is seldom easy—not for the couple that divorces, but also not for their children (if they have any). However, past psychological research on how divorce affects children’s development was ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

OTTAWA — Two men from Putnam County and one from Auglaize County are among the 135 people arrested in a statewide operation last week combating human trafficking. Ted Rosengarten, 52, of Columbus ...

Canadian authorities have identified a person known as "The Woman in the Well" nearly two decades after her remains were found. The woman, Alice Spence, was born in September 1881 and had moved to ...

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced Friday the results of a two-day human trafficking operation in Oxford that led to seven arrests and the recovery of five victims.Operation Fins Up was ...

(WJW) – More than 100 people in Ohio have been arrested as part of a statewide crackdown on human trafficking, according to Attorney General Dave Yost. In a press release, officials said law ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...