John Pumphrey was still a boy when he enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777. After archaeologists discovered his remains, ...

Phylo-Plex, a new computational method, has been developed by Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators to allow cost-effective and scalable DNA sequencing of pathogens in ...

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...

Forensic science plays a vital role in identifying, characterizing, and quantifying physical and biological traces recovered from crime scenes — a task that ...

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Introduction Psychotic disorders account for significant morbidity and healthcare costs and yet their pathophysiology remains poorly understood. The National Institute for Health and Care Research ...

For more than three decades, researchers studying genomes have relied on foundational resources such as Repbase and, more ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

The move comes as the Trump administration is trying to weaken the act that’s meant to protect endangered species from going ...

DNA analysis is unlocking some age-old secrets of soil. The newfound knowledge is helping farmers apply biological solutions to increase yields of better produce with greater sustainability. What was ...

Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting ...