The genetics company is teaming up with director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the giant moa, an extinct ...

A genomic analysis of Greenland’s Qimmeq dogs suggest they and their human partners arrived on the island centuries earlier than previously thought.

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Scientists have got their hands on the oldest animal proteins yet, extracted from 18-million-year-old fossilized mammal teeth in East Africa, pushing the record back by an astonishing 14 to 15 million ...

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

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can be used to discover the presence of diseases in the human body. Similarly, its functionality can be leveraged in an intrusion detection system (IDS) to detect attacks ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Recent studies have demonstrated that various DNA adducts can be detected in human tissues and fluids using liquid chromatography connected to tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). However, the utility ...