Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have performed a comprehensive evaluation of five artificial ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Scientists have broken the world record for sequencing DNA and they're already using the new tech to help care for newborns ...

Salk researchers uncovered a genetic mechanism that directs DNA methylation in Arabidopsis. Instead of relying solely on ...