Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

During the third millennium B.C.E., a man was buried in a sealed ceramic pot in the Egyptian village of Nuwayrat. Now, using ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

From schools of fish darting away from sharks to flocks of starlings swirling through the sky, the animal kingdom is full of ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Scientists have identified dozens of human proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, depends on to replicate ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Scientists just sequenced the first sea spider genome, uncovering genetic clues to limb growth, regeneration, and ancient ...

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

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...