Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

Research that combined archaeology, history and ecology provides a nuanced understanding of the past that could help ...

“Transposable element activation is a unique feature of early embryos in multiple ... but also highlight the potential of ancient viral DNA to transform research on gene regulation, cell ...

Only a handful of labs work on ancient DNA research. Scientists can retrieve DNA from human bones, teeth or tissue from museum collections, as well as from ancient cave dwellings, burial grounds ...

The researchers studied these genomes using a method called identity by descent (IBD) segment sharing, which is when two or more people have the same long DNA segments that they each inherited ...

But these light features were only sporadic until relatively ... Ghirotto and her colleagues analyzed 348 samples of ancient DNA from archaeological sites in 34 countries in Western Europe and ...

using an adjacent DNA-cutting segment of the protein. That modularity could facilitate tool development, allowing researchers to swap useful new features into natural Tas proteins. "Nature is ...