Scientists have confirmed Leonardo da Vinci’s bloodline by tracing matching DNA in living male-line descendants.

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species, also providing evidence of eight instances in which ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

A “genetic surgery” or “interventional genetics” system for individualized treatments would be a marriage of drug development ...

Published in a new book, the elaborate family tree goes back to 1331 to Michele, the great-great-great grandfather of the ...

The study adds to evidence challenging the dominance of ‘natural selection’ as the sole adaptive force in evolution.

An international team of researchers has found a genetic link to long-term symptoms after COVID-19. The identified gene ...

Researchers are yet to verify whether the supposed descendants like drawing weird prototype helicopter things.

Two of the traits that set modern humans apart from non-human primates are taller stature and a higher basal metabolic rate.

A study in the journal Nature explains how age reshapes the blood system. In both humans and mice, a few stem cells, or ...

The challenges come from various interested parties — people from whom patented genes have been isolated, researchers who wish to undertake genetic epidemiological studies or to develop gene ...

More than 500 years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci remains one of history’s most extraordinary figures. Now, a ...