This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...

Present in nearly every living cell, DNA molecules are among the largest molecules known to science. DNA is a linear biopolymer, a compound biomolecule in the form of a double helix. Polymers are ...

Discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1998, the “infant of Grotta delle Mura” died at around 7.5 months to 1.5 years of ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

Experts have revealed the origins of a unique DNA duplication mechanism that grants plants additional ways to control genetic instructions.

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances ... and the revolution of genetic engineering from the discovery of DNA to today’s gene-editing technology.

Notably, though, the study comes with caveats, and forensic scientists are already aware of the limitations of this test, experts told Live Science. The new research focuses on "DNA mixture ...

All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is stable over millennia. To date, people have encoded information into DNA ...

A chemical in common-use plastics may cause DNA damage and infertility in women, a new Harvard Medical School study shows.

DNA from a 17,000-year-old infant’s remains offers insights into ancestry, physical traits, and early-life stress during the ...