By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings ...

Scientists solve the mystery of the Justinian Plague. They identify Yersinia pestis as the cause. The plague devastated the Byzantine Empire. DNA from ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ...

Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Recent studies show that senescent cells accumulate several species of cytosolic DNAs, including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), cytoplasmic chromatin fragments (CCFs), and retrotransposable element cDNAs, ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced a complete DNA set from an ancient Egyptian man, the oldest studied sequence, dating to when the pyramids were first constructed. The analysis ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Once on the brink during the last ice age, great white sharks made a remarkable recovery globally, but their DNA reveals a baffling story. Classic migration explanations fail, leaving scientists with ...

STORY: This skull belongs to a previously unknown lineage of human beings, dating back about 6,000 years ago.That’s according ...