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

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first human genome took over a decade to complete, modern laboratories can now ...

An international team of scientists has, for the first time, applied a minimally invasive genetic analysis technique to ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

It was one of several high-profile Quebec murders that have been recently solved thanks to advances in DNA analysis, ...

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter’s killer that was 30 years in the ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

The lab, which expands upon an effort by UCSD and Scripps Research, will use wastewater analysis to detect flu, COVID and RSV ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Lonvi Biosciences says the answer is yes: citing a Nature Metabolism paper, its CTO claims “living 150 years is entirely ...

Injectable filler could help breast cancer patients avoid complex reconstruction procedures, though human trials are still needed.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...