DNA Extracted From Prehistoric ‘Chewing Gum’ of a Neolithic Woman ‘Lola’ Reveals What She Looked Like Scientist involved with DNA and genetics was able to extract a complete human genome and map the ...

About 19,000 years ago, a woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. In 1996, ...

Each spring, pregnant Mexican long-nosed bats fly north from Mexico to parts of southern Texas and New Mexico, feasting on ...

These are created by transferring nuclei containing DNA from human cells into animal eggs that have had almost all of their genetic information removed. The resulting embryos are more than 99% ...

Similar to retail stores that use standardized barcodes to differentiate the thousands of items they sell, DNA barcodes are gene sequences that differentiate animals, plants, and microbial species. To ...

Consumer genomics is a growing area of interest for humans. With this interest has come the rise of DNA testing for our animal companions as well, with our beloved canines at the forefront of this ...

A UK-based clinic, Gemini Genetics, is offering pet owners the chance to clone their beloved animals, using DNA to create genetically identical replicas. A 12,000-year-old wolf leg bone discovered ...

"One of the challenges of eastern indigo snake monitoring is that the animals are highly mobile ... Then, they used a novel DNA extraction method to identify the eDNA left by the snake in the ...

DNA methylation status in a variety of tissues can accurately reveal the age of an animal, but previously discovered epigenetic clocks often aren’t evolutionarily conserved. In a study published today ...

photo by ondrejprosicky An emerging field with great potential to monitor populations while also addressing some of the aforementioned challenges is the analysis of genetic material (DNA) shed by ...