Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Genome-wide ancient DNA recovered from late Neanderthals in Belgium and France points to substantially greater genetic ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed new portable field devices that will allow soldiers to identify unknown ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

A circuit judge has denied a new DNA evidentiary hearing for James Duckett as the state asks the Supreme Court to lift a stay ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually ...

The oldest known evidence of the plague killing people has been found in Siberia, and it carried a gene that may have made it ...

June 2026An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich and the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed an ...

When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to DNA, the four-letter code containing the instructions for building a living organism. Scientists know that DNA encodes everything from hair ...

Scheme showing the structure of cytosine, 5-methylcytosine, and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Adding a methyl group to the DNA base cytosine represses gene expression in mammalian cells. To remove the ...