An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in ...

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Launched in 2020, initiative seeks to build vast 'digital bank of life' to protect biodiversity amid accelerating species ...

Researchers at Beijing Genomics and IMDEA Nanociencia institutes have introduced a novel method that could significantly ...

About a dozen studies in the past five years have made claims linking nearly every type of human cancer with the presence of ...

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said his investigators would examine whether it could be used to help solve the ...

Colorectal cancer is unique in having its own microbial "fingerprint," according to new research from the University of East ...

Prosecutors can use critical DNA evidence against suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann that hasn't been used in ...

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

DNA is often compared to a written language. The metaphor leaps out: Like letters of the alphabet, molecules (the nucleotide bases A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine) are ...