The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

Scientists used decades old air filters to read DNA in dust, revealing a long decline in biodiversity across northern Sweden.

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

For decades, biologists assumed a single ‘turtle tick’ crawled across much of Asia. Now detailed DNA and microscope work show ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

MERIDEN — The state's forensic lab had a role in investigating the Brown University shooting, examining ballistics at the ...

CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...

Structures long blamed for blocking genes actually help them turn on, according to the Cornell Chronicle. Cornell scientists found that nucleosomes — the spools that package DNA — relieve twisting ...

Justine Paul was indicted on flawed evidence. A defense witness wrote that police should have treated no fewer than 12 people ...