Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

A humble kitchen spice could pack a powerful antiviral punch. Researchers have found that compounds in cardamom seeds can ...

Kada Scott: DNA confirms human remains found belong to missing woman A rapid DNA test found a 99.9% match to DNA samples collected from Scott's parents, meaning that the remains found on Saturday do ...

Aboriginal Australian culture has long been recognized as humanity's oldest continuous living culture, with scientific literature estimating their arrival on the continent at 65,000 years ago. However ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. How do computers see the world? It’s ...

Marriage equality is once again a topic of conversation in the Ohio legislature, although—this time—the debate isn’t about the marriage between two humans but, instead, between humans and software.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When we think about tricky places for humans to live, our ...

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We humans like to think that we are more complex and sophisticated creatures than, for example, a fish, so it may come as a surprise to learn that there is a creature with 30 times more DNA than we ...

When the rodent cGAS enzyme was inserted into human and mouse cells in the laboratory, the researchers observed that it significantly enhanced the cells' ability to repair DNA and in turn reduced the ...