After viruses infected our evolutionary ancestors, bits of viral DNA lodged themselves into their genomes—and we still carry ...

The Design, Automation, Manufacturing, and Processes Lab and eLabNext announced a formal partnership today to coincide with the kick-off ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

You can read the full ‘Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii plaster casts’ study, published via ...

Key figures in the study include forensic archaeologist Elena Pilli and geneticists Stefania Vai, David Reich, and Alissa ...

The scientific data we provide do not always align with common assumptions,” said study co-author and professor David Reich.

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international ...

But DNA evidence recently published in Current Biology suggests things were not as they seem. “What we found is that, in fact ...

Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...

A new study published in the Current Biology journal explains how new DNA research from body casts in Pompeii illuminates ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA ...