Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

The authors sequenced ancient DNA from two naturally mummified female individuals buried at the site of Takarkori, a natural cave-like rock shelter in the Libyan Desert. Decades of study there ...

They exist as circular pieces of DNA in the nuclei of tumor cells outside chromosomes. Transcription of the amplified ecDNA genes can promote oncogenic processes, such as the increased expression ...

Urban, and Tim Liedl from LMU Munich has managed to significantly improve such tests using a cutting-edge nanotechnology called DNA origami. In DNA origami, DNA is folded—akin to the Japanese ar ...

Genes exist in most cells. Inside a cell is a long strand of the chemical DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA ...

Colossal CEO Ben Lamm said the team used DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a 72,000-year-old skull to analyze the full genome of the species and create three healthy dire wolf puppies ...

The police ministry has clarified remarks regarding the rape case of a seven-year-old girl, Cwecwe, denying that a DNA sample was taken from a third person of interest in the case. Police Minister ...

23andMe, the company whose mail-in self-testing kits became synonymous with DNA testing, is filing for bankruptcy. Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded 23andMe in 2006, is stepping down as CEO as the ...

New research, based on skeletons found in southwest Libya, is helping to answer this question. Ancient DNA from the Takarkori rock shelter has revealed an isolated group of humans who lived for tens ...

Susan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit. Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private ...

Then, his sister took a DNA test, and those suspicions turned to truth. He had been mistakenly switched at birth. "My siblings joked that, you know, you were the mailman's kid or stuff like that ...