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

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

In 2025, UCL scientists made breakthroughs in Huntington’s disease, cancer and sight loss, revealed the Sun’s south pole and ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

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

Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected by hydrogen bonds that are the building blocks of DNA. These base pairs collectively ...