This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about the people and their relationships ...

Present in nearly every living cell, DNA molecules are among the largest molecules known to science. DNA is a linear biopolymer, a compound biomolecule in the form of a double helix. Polymers are ...

Discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1998, the “infant of Grotta delle Mura” died at around 7.5 months to 1.5 years of ...

In 1985, Alec Jeffrey’s DNA fingerprinting first started being used in the courts, initially to settle immigration cases and later in the field of forensics. It helped secure the prosecution of Colin ...

Life Sciences Center (LSC) have discovered a unique way for cells to silence specific genes without cutting DNA. This ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances ... and the revolution of genetic engineering from the discovery of DNA to today’s gene-editing technology.

"This is becoming less science fiction and more future reality ... Rossi has investigated where the aurochs originated, using DNA from the bones of ancient animals, dating back 50,000 years ...

To understand the workings of DNA in relation to disease, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed the first multimodal deep learning model of its kind, EPBDxDNABERT-2, capable of ...