Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

This discovery began quietly back in 2011 when doctors detected an unusual antibody in the woman’s blood during routine ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

The first complete DNA study of an Ancient Egyptian has revealed he was probably a celebrated potter who was given an oddly ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...