Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine ...
When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...
Emerging methods are improving the ability to identify even highly degraded human remains. By Damien Cave Reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam The world is facing an abundance of tragic events that produce ...
But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...
Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...
A research team led by Zhiping Weng, PhD, and Jill Moore, PhD'18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the known number of potential ...
A 2015 report published by a private genomics testing company found that 2% of 345 hot dogs tested contained traces of human DNA. However, it was unclear whether that report was a peer-reviewed study, ...