A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into ...

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

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

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

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

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, ...

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our ...