Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has typically been connected to head injuries, specifically those suffered by athletes ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

In 1812, French military general Napoleon Bonaparte controlled most of Europe. Even with all this power, though, when he went ...

Scientists have discovered a tardigrade protein, Dsup, that protects DNA from damage and may enhance human cellular resilience under extreme stress conditions.

New research suggests that two surprise pathogens were among the diseases that laid waste to the emperor’s vaunted Grande ...

A mass grave holding soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's French army reveals some of the diseases that killed the Grande Armée ...

DNA, often called the blueprint of life, is built from four chemical building blocks known as deoxy-nucleoside triphosphates ...

Researchers have uncovered genetic evidence of paratyphoid and relapsing fever among Napoleon’s soldiers who retreated from Russia in 1812. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur have performed a genetic ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

A major US study reveals that marijuana use leaves measurable chemical traces in DNA, altering genes related to mental health ...