Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

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Zoos and wildlife parks across North America are home to hundreds of giraffes that awe millions of visitors each year. These ...

Researchers have successfully sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered from the remains of a woolly mammoth named Yuka, who ...

At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the new science writer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

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Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental ...

Scientists have sequenced ancient RNA before, determining the individual building blocks of the preserved molecules. But ...

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Pregnancy loss affects up to 25% of pregnancies. New studies using optical genome mapping reveal genetic and fragile-site ...