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Ancient DNA is DNA that is isolated from ancient specimens. Due to degradation processes, ancient DNA is more degraded in comparison with contemporary genetic material. Credit: Shutterstock
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JAN 12, 2016Plants & Animals
All multi-cellular life may be the result of a genetic accident that happened more than 600-million years ago, according ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 05, 2015Neuroscience
Most people don’t realize that the genetic remnants of viruses from millions of years ago still reside in human DN ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 17, 2015Microbiology
On a morning in March 2014, the South China Morning Post reported the discovery of a Megavirus, recovered from the ancie ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Our genomes are riddled with the detritus of ancient viruses. They infected our hominid ancestors tens of millions of ye ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In a groundbreaking achievement led by an international team that includes Clemson scientist Chris Saski, the intricatel ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 07, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Bodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 07, 2015Immunology
Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing them, breeding with them and even outri ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 10, 2015Neuroscience
Lindsay Borthwick, Yale
Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
DNA analysis has revealed evidence for a massive migration into the heartland of Europe 4,500 years ago.
Written By: Robert WoodardFEB 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Researchers have found a 55,000-year-old partial skull in the northern Israel community of Manot, from about the time wh ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliAPR 07, 2014Immunology
Workers on the Crossrail transportation project in London made a gruesome discovery last March-25 skeletons in a shaft 5 ...FEB 26, 2014Microbiology
We ask a lot of our teeth, and they are incredibly durable. Not only are they durable during our lifetime, they outlast ...FEB 25, 2014Genetics & Genomics
There has been debate for many years in the scientific community on the ancestry of Native Americans and the path they t ...JAN 12, 2016Plants & Animals
All multi-cellular life may be the result of a genetic accident that happened more than 600-million years ago, according ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 05, 2015Neuroscience
Most people don’t realize that the genetic remnants of viruses from millions of years ago still reside in human DN ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 17, 2015Microbiology
On a morning in March 2014, the South China Morning Post reported the discovery of a Megavirus, recovered from the ancie ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Our genomes are riddled with the detritus of ancient viruses. They infected our hominid ancestors tens of millions of ye ...Written By: Robert WoodardAPR 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In a groundbreaking achievement led by an international team that includes Clemson scientist Chris Saski, the intricatel ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 07, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Bodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 07, 2015Immunology
Modern humans have been blamed for killing off the Neanderthals by out competing them, breeding with them and even outri ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 23, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Harvard University are one step closer to bringing Woolly mammoths back to life, after successfully insert ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 10, 2015Neuroscience
Lindsay Borthwick, Yale
Thousands of genetic "dimmer" switches, regions of DNA known as regulatory elements, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 05, 2015Earth & The Environment
DNA analysis has revealed evidence for a massive migration into the heartland of Europe 4,500 years ago.
Written By: Robert WoodardFEB 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Researchers have found a 55,000-year-old partial skull in the northern Israel community of Manot, from about the time wh ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 30, 2014Genetics & Genomics
For hundreds of years, the Dorset people, the last of the Paleo Eskimos, dominated eastern Canada and Greenland. Then, s ...Written By: Peter MicheliAPR 07, 2014Immunology
Workers on the Crossrail transportation project in London made a gruesome discovery last March-25 skeletons in a shaft 5 ...FEB 26, 2014Microbiology
We ask a lot of our teeth, and they are incredibly durable. Not only are they durable during our lifetime, they outlast ...FEB 25, 2014Genetics & Genomics
There has been debate for many years in the scientific community on the ancestry of Native Americans and the path they t ...
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