All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Using whole genome sequencing and cutting‐edge analyses, researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered the surprising ...

So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland ’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Genomes recovered from the teeth, described by Martin Sikora of the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues in 2019, show that the boys were not close relatives and belonged to a sizable ...

One group of scientists examined genomes from three female and three male Homo sapiens individuals who lived around 45,000 years ago based on bones found in a cave at the German town of Ranis, and ...

A mere 5,000-10,000 African genomes have been studied, compared to around one million across the rest of the world. As of 2022, just 0.14% of the data in GWAS studies comes from Africans.

The newly discovered genomes come from fossils that have baffled scientists for decades. In 1950, archaeologists digging in a cave in what is now the Czech Republic found the skull of an ancient ...