She had brown eyes and black hair. She was almost 5 feet, 7 inches tall and chewed tobacco. She was in her 20s, carried heavy loads with her left arm and had given birth. We don't know her name, but ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have been freezing living cells from endangered species. Here’s how the Frozen Zoo® is ...

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...

Researchers have uncovered the enzyme behind chromothripsis, a chaotic chromosome-shattering event seen in about one in four cancers. The enzyme, N4BP2, breaks apart DNA trapped in tiny cellular ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

The three-year study – led by mental health data science company Akrivia Health in partnership with Cardiff University – will ...

Kirsty Wright hated science in school, but her unconventional career path has led her to use DNA profiling in high-profile ...

Outside the pub, you will see a blue plaque memorialising the 28th of February 1953 – on this day, Watson and Crick came to The Eagle to announce the fact that they had finally cracked the double ...

As the Nancy Guthrie abduction case stretches into a third week, investigators — and a public riveted by every mysterious ...

After 44 years, a jury found James Oliver Unick guilty in the 1982 cold case murder of 13-year-old Sarah Geer, thanks to DNA technology.