New tech lets scientists extract DNA from old grasshopper collections without damaging the specimens. This unlocks evolutionary data previously inaccessible due to DNA degradation.

Our team at the UK Dementia Research Institute’s Biomarker Factory at UCL are part of the global effort working to develop ...

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for electric-vehicle batteries, nickel ...

"By cleverly combining new techniques for analyzing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia," predicts Professor John ...

In a brief published Wednesday, WoodMac analysts outlined the primary limitations of relying on Greenland’s reserve in the ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

UC Davis researchers are studying why some corals can stand heat and heal from bleaching. The answers could help protect ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

A remarkable discovery in Siberia has revealed the best-preserved DNA of a woolly rhinoceros ever found, extracted from muscle tissue inside a 14,400-year-old wolf cub. A rare find in the Siberian ...

A sealed tomb, a skeleton in a pot, and a 4,500-year-old secret hidden in two teeth have just upended what we thought we knew about ancient Egypt’s origins. The man’s teeth, carefully excavated and ...

Primerdesign (part of the Novacyt Group), a company focused on the design, manufacture, validation and supply of real-time PCR kits and reagents, today announced the launch of its exsig ® Mag ...

In this video I show you how to extract DNA! Then I eat it just to see what it tastes like! I take the DNA out of strawberries, kiwis and even shrimp! This is an amazing experiment that you could do ...