DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

In a breakthrough that turns routine radiation monitoring into a biodiversity time capsule, researchers have extracted decades of airborne DNA from old air filters to reconstruct how ecosystems have ...

Teams have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Analysis revealed she was around 18 to ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

If stretched out, human DNA would be about 2 meters long. For this long strand to fit inside the cell nucleus, which is about ...

Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough non-invasive tool that can estimate a person’s biological age using a simple urine sample, potentially transforming the way ageing and disease risks are ...

When Raniyah Copeland abruptly left the Black AIDS Institute in 2021, the storied organization appointed trans woman and ...

Last year’s chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to researchers using AI to study proteins in entirely new ways, and in 2025 ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...