An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

Genes passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe more than 10,000 years ago may be related to exceptional longevity in Italian centenarians today. A new genetic analysis of more ...

Researchers analyzed airborne DNA trapped on air filters collected since the 1960s in northern Sweden. Sequencing identified ...

In a breakthrough that turns routine radiation monitoring into a biodiversity time capsule, researchers have extracted ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

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

Instead of finding treatments for one rare disease, two University at Albany researchers have developed a compound that could ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

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