Scientists are one step closer to pinpointing fragments of Leonardo da Vinci’s elusive DNA. A team of researchers from the ...

Scientists have uncovered genetic evidence that they say may be linked to the Renaissance master, but some experts are more ...

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

According to a new (but as-of-yet not peer-reviewed) study published in the preprint database bioRxiv, scientists began their ...

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the ...

For centuries, the body of Leonardo da Vinci has been as elusive as his smile, his remains scattered and his grave uncertain, ...

Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci died, scientists are probing a startling possibility: that microscopic traces of his ...

This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might ...

Researchers report having collected DNA they believe to belong to the legendary artist Leonardo da Vinci, offering new ...

Now scientists from the field of so-called arteomics, or the study of biological traces on artworks and other cultural ...

Learn about the Leonardo DNA Project and the diverse biological traces that survive on the surface of historical artifacts.