In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. ......

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214...

Scientists have managed to decode the full DNA of an ancient Egyptian man for the first time, revealing that he carried ancestry from both North...

New generations of wild ash trees are rapidly evolving resistance to the fungus devastating their numbers, scientists have discovered. Source: The...

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Final facial depiction of the Nuwayrat individual. Credit: Adeline Morez Jacobs / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have managed to decode the full DNA of an...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This rare genetic snapshot...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This rare genetic snapshot...

Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging from stretches of DNA...