Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...

Recent DNA analysis from excavations in China, Central Asia, and Hungary has uncovered the origins of the marauding Huns who ...

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

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, ...

We’ve long suspected that the transition to farming and animal husbandry opened the door to a new era of disease – now DNA shows us that it happened at least 6,500 years ago ...

Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, where the DNA becomes ...