Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First discovered in 2010, the ‘Red Lady of El Mirón’ is an ochre-coated skeleton that provides a glimpse into human life following ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick have extracted ancient DNA from sediment cores beneath the North Sea, detecting ...

Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artefacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to visionary Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci. They have recovered trace DNA from ...

DELAND, Fla. — Volusia County deputies are much closer to identifying a man whose remains were found 18 years ago, thanks to modern technology and forensic practices. DNA of a man found in 2006 in ...

It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard, circa 2,000 ...

Is the world of art history on the verge of a revolutionary discovery? Researchers recently rubbed traces of DNA from a sketch drawn in red chalk entitled 'The Holy Child', a Renaissance work ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

The fascinating part of reconstructing a European woolly rhinoceros’s mitochondrial genome for the first time in history should be the fact that scientists have now ...

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New England Biolabs has released the Monarch® Mag Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) Extraction Kit, a bead-based method designed for scalable and reproducible isolation of low abundance cfDNA from plasma, serum, ...